RPG a Day: Resourceful

26. What’s an RPG item that provides awesomely useful resources?

There are so many games that provide wonderful resources, whether it’s game-mastering advice, bibliographies, play aids, online content, or a vibrant support community. It’s hard to pick just one, but I will go with Fiasco because there are now so many playsets you can enjoy, both official and fan-made, that you can now use the framework to do much more that its original mission. Few people are availing themselves of of it for continuing series, I should write something on that one of these days! but in the mean time, you have so many worlds to pick from…

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RPG a Day: Fan-Made Resources

22. What are some awesome fan-made RPG resources?

Today’s default question was too similar to others I’ve just answered (”What RPGs are easy for you to run?” calls for an answer that’s pretty close to the one I gave for “What is an awesome RPG you enjoy adapting?”) So I decided to ask myself a different question, and answer it. 🙂

I want to celebrate fan-made and shared materials. There are so many, so I will just point to a few of different types.

• Mad Irishman’s character sheets
• Randy Oest’s Fate SRD site
• The Burning Wheel Wiki, and its companion wikis for other Burning Wheel HQ games.
• The Fiasco Playsets collection curated by James Gabrielsen
• Lizzie Stark’s Safety Primer, John Stavropoulos’ X Card, and Brie Sheldon’s Script Change
• HishGraphics paper miniatures
• HeroMachine
• Seventh Sanctum and Abulafia random generators

Yes, I do realize that the distinction between fan and professional is very subjective in the world of role-playing games. I’m just trying to shine a spotlight on quality resources created for love of the game and generously shared.

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