How could I forget Myth Weavers?
Here’s a website I like: myth-weavers.com. It has 2 features I really like.
1. Character sheet sharing.
That’s where my friends and I share and store our character sheets. The sheets are easily customizable, even for items and abilities that are “homebrewed”. You can give access to your character sheets to other users (your DM). It’s great because I always have access to my players’ characters. Very useful if I want to set them a trap but also make sure that they have at least one out.
2. Dungeon, Town, and NPC stats generator.
It is based on the generator I use the most: Jamis Buck’s. But Myth Weavers took it up a notch by making the design better. It has good design in general - which is rare in the online RPG community. I know I’m rambling about the design issue, but I swear someone will have an epilepsy attack from one of these sites before long.
Keep making suggestions of online tools - for DMs or players.
8 Comments
11:03 am on July 24th, 2007
and me who thought that all your adventure where homemade
11:10 am on July 24th, 2007
Well, all my adventures are home made but I get my inspiration - especially my maps - from somewhere.
7:37 am on July 25th, 2007
Hmm Maps….you know I quite often cheat
Heaven forfend that I admit that out loud but I do.
I have a humungous library of old adventures from 2e. They are often freely available on line…legally of course, none of this downloading them from BitTorrent of course.
So I take out an adventure that I like a dungeon map… (Scan it if necessary) then I often even borrow the descriptions of the rooms.
Finally I fill in the 3.5e monster/trap and other details to fit my story idea. Twisting the origional descriptions as I see fit.
Bobs your uncle
You have no idea how many times I have recycled dungeons out of the caves of chaos…just to see if anyone notices
They never do LOL
Want the maps of the Dwarven Delve under the City of Ptolus?
Oddly enough much of them have been prepared using the maps I already have from Caves of Chaos.
Just cut up reorientated, and redescribed. Man it looks so professional…but is basically a CHEAT
If I want a different sort of map, i just go find one with google.
Want a good castle?
http://www.greatcastlesofwales.co.uk/harlech_plan.htm
No point in making up something that aleardy exists.
WotC have a great site for pinching maps from…
http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/arch/mw
But I really like just finding things on google…it is much more satisfying…and suits my RESEARCH first philosophy.
For a bit of fun easy to find, another castle
http://www.candlekeep.com/campaign/logs/claws/kk.jpg
Oh and there is always someone who will help you out, and bend a few rules…so you don’t have too.
http://home.insightbb.com/~harmyn/home.htm
11:26 am on July 25th, 2007
That castles of Wales link is priceless! Thank you! It’s a good idea to use real castles and copy them into our fantastic D&D world.
6:11 am on July 26th, 2007
So now I am rooting through the WotC site to answer the thread about MMV and I noticed Castle Ravenloft images are available
http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/ag/20061031a
Man that lot are a brilliant set for free.
12:17 pm on July 26th, 2007
That is indead a brilliant set. I knew they had a bunch of free tools but I had never spotted that Ravenloft one. Thanks. I owe you a beer.
5:58 am on July 27th, 2007
Never a good idea to threaten me with a beer, because for me beer comes in kegs and I only drink one at once.
So I might just take you up on it and while there is always the chance I might have a limit…I keep trying to find it….just don’t get me on shorts…man does that get me smashed.
2:01 pm on August 12th, 2007
There’s also my website, DM Tools. You’ll find a <b>huge</b> selection of stat blocks as well as encounter and treasure generators.