(C)RPG News
(C)RPG Systems (Rules, Content, Resources...)
- Dungeons & Dragons 4th+ Edition (official site)
- Dungeons & Dragons 3.5 Edition (Archives)
- The Hypertext d20 SRD™
- d20 Modern
- Gamma World (history)
- Pathfinder Roleplaying Game™
- Malhavoc Press (by Monte Cook, co-designer D&D 3rd Ed)
- Green Ronin Publishing
- Pinnacle Entertainment Group
- Mongoose Publishing
- Alderac Entertainment Group
- Pelgrane Press
- Mad Irishman Productions
- The Acaeum — Dungeons & Dragons Knowledge Compendium
- Famous Poets and Poems
- The Beauty We Love (Poetry and Pictures)
- Love Is A Place (Poetry and Pictures)
- The Medieval Bestiary — Animals in the Middle Ages
- Theoi Greek Mythology — Exploring Mythology in Classical Literature & Art
- BestFantasyBooks.com
- RPG Library
- RPG Gateway (THOUSANDS of Links!)
- RPGnet — an independent web site about tabletop roleplaying games
- Roleplaying Tips — Game Master Tips and Role-Playing Advice
- Campaign Mastery — Expert advice on creating and running exceptional campaigns
- The Dragon Stone — research into dragons (bibliography)
(C)RPG Online Stores
- DriveThruRPG
- RPGObjects
- Paizo Publishing, LLC®
- e23 — Digital Content from Steve Jackson Games
- STEAM® - The ultimate entertainment platform.
- Q-Workshop.com (Dice!)
- TheDiceShopOnline
- Noble Knight Games — Where the Out-of-Print is Available Again
- Crystal Caste (Dice!)
- Chessex — The coolest dice on the planet.
- Awesome Dice
- Great Hall Games in Austin, Texas (Dice and Things!)
(C)RPG Utilities
- d20Pro virtual tabletop program
- Fantasy Grounds™ virtual tabletop
- Battlegrounds™ virtual tabletop software (Extensive Links & Resources!)
- Hero Lab® character creation software
- DM Genie computer program
- Obsidian Portal — Make running your Table Top RPG campaigns more fun!
- Pen & Paper Games online community
- Online Generic Randomizer Engine (O.G.R.E.)
- iTabletop™ 3
- DiceCollector.com — Home of the Largest Collection of Dice (animated dice mouse-pointer trail!) [see dice rollers near bottom]
- Dungeons & Dragons Dice Roller
- RPTools — DiceTool
- Campaign Cartographer 3
- RPG Dice Roller
- SmallRoller
- Seventh Sanctum™ — a site of random tools for creativity and more!
- RPA Roleplaying Software
- Metacreator — the universal RPG character generator application
- donjon (285 generators!)
- Chaotic Shiny — a generator site aimed at people who write, game, or live in fantasy worlds of their own creation
Game Development
- GameDev.Net™
- AiGameDev.com
- AI Game Programmers Guild
- AI depot
- AI Topics
- Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
- Generation5 — ...deals with all AI topics including robotics, neural networks, genetic algorithms, AI programming, home automation...
- Red Blob Games (incl. Amit’s Game Programming Information)
- Game Programming Gems book series
- AI Game Programming Wisdom book series
- jMonkeyEngine Java OpenGL game engine
- GDC Vault — a trove of in-depth design, technical and inspirational talks and slides from the influencers of the game development industry, taken from over 20 years of the worldwide Game Developers Conferences.
- Game Developer Magazine (Complete Archives)
- DevMaster — mastery in game development
- The Game Programming Wiki
- The Classic “Tree Swing” Example of Production and Customer Service Gone Awry
- ASCII Dreams — A roguelike developer's diary
- tuts+ (Game Development section)
- Wolfram MathWorld [More math than you can shake a stick at!]
Java & JavaFX Development
- JavaOne 2013 Presentations [Follow links to find slides]
- JavaFX — The Rich Client Platform
- Java.Net JavaFX Community
- DZone — JavaLobby
- FX Experience — JavaFX News, Demos & Insight
- JavaFX: The 10,000 Foot View
- Jewelsea's Articles
- Java Buddy
- JavaFX CSS Reference Guide
- The Server Side Java Community
- stackoverflow — a question and answer site for professional and enthusiast programmers
- Java Code Geeks — Java 2 Java Developers Resource Center
- Planet JFX
- NetBeans (IDE)
- Eclipse (IDE)
- The Stony Brook Algorithm Repository
- Killer Game Programming in Java
- Animated GIF (Garfield the cat!) with Transparent Stage [Vid demo]
- JOPS - Java Open Particle System [Vid demo]
- Particle System in Java (v5) - Collision [Vid demo: Animated flames emit from mouse movements]
- Star Trek Technology for Java3D [Note that you can include the Java3D libs and dll in a project to run]
- The Silicon Valley JavaFX User Group (SvJugFx)
Web Development
- DownThemAll (dTa) (Firefox Extension) [Awesome! DONATE]
- TYPETESTER — Compare Screen Type
- DYNAMIC DRIVE FavIcon Generator
- W3C® Markup Validation Service
- FontSquirrel WebFont Generator
- Identifont
- Browser Shots (Browser Compatibility Test)
- Live HTTP Headers (Firefox Extension)
- Web Developer (Firefox Extension)
- Google : PageSpeed Tools (also as Firefox Extension under Firebug)
- BetterExplained : How To Optimize Your Site With GZIP Compression
- GIDNetwork™ : Online web page compression / deflate / gzip test tool
- Jarrod Overson's JavaScript Particle System (demo)
- Anfy Java (special effects) [Security might block online viewing: Can run locally with appletviewer to see the neat visuals]
Font Resources
- FontSquirrel — 100% Free for Commercial Use.
- 1001 Fonts (especially fonts by Typographer Mediengestaltung)
- DejaVu (Free Font Family)
- Iconian Fonts
- Open Font Library
- dafont
- Font Foundry
- fonts.com
- Harold's Fonts
- House of Lime
- MyFonts
- pickafont.com
- UrbanFonts
- Typodermic Fonts
- Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL)
- ionicons — The premium icon font for Ionic Framework. [Open Source; MIT Licensed]
Image Resources
- WikiMedia Commons — a database of [20+ million] freely usable media files to which anyone can contribute [Awesome service! DONATE]
- CGTextures
- The Athenaeum
- Dundjinni Monthly Archives
- photobucket
- Fantasy Gallery
- morgueFile — free photo archive by creatives for creatives
- deviantART #Realm-of-Fantasy
- deviantART #Three-of-Pentacles — Fantasy collection of artefacts
- deviantART #Legendary-Swords
- deviantART #DungeonCrawl
- deviantART #WorldBuildersGuild
- deviantART #stocks-for-FREE-use
- deviantART #Warrior-Spirit-Group
- deviantART *Neyjour
- Public Domain Clip Art
- Public Domain Images
- The Hubble Space Telescope — a project of international co-operation between NASA and the European Space Agency
- Openclipart
- TimelineFX by RigzSoft
- Obsidian Dawn — Photoshop & GIMP Brushes, Photoshop Tutorials, Images, & More!
- PicDrome — Public Domain Pictures
- Public Domain Photos
- Brooklyn Museum
- europeana — think culture
- Free Nature Pictures
- Free Photos
- pixabay
- Public Domain Pictures
- Public Domain Photos
- U.S. National Park Service
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Sound Resources
- LibriVox Free Audiobook Collection [Awesome service! DONATE]
- Felix Bloom
- thatjeffcarter
- Taira Komori's Japanese Free Sound Effects
- ccmixter — Download, Sample, Cut-up, Share.
- Free Music Archive (FMA)
- Pandora Records
- MusOpen
- U.S. National Park Service
- The United States Army Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps
- freesound.org
Literature Resources
- The Online Medieval & Classical Library (OMACL)
- Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru — The National Library of Wales
- myArmoury — A Resource for Historic Arms and Armour Collectors
- All Things Medieval
- Medieval Warfare
- Medieval Spell
- The Association for Renaissance Martial Arts (ARMA)
- EyeWitness to History
- Classical Fencing
- Middle Ages
- Academy of European Medieval Martial Arts (AEMMA)
The Software Business
- PIXEL PROSPECTOR.com — The Indie Goldmine [massively comprehensive list of lists within lists!]
- 25 Steps for Building a Micro-ISV
- 24 things to do, and 100 things *not* to do (yet) for building a MicroISV
- Piwik — Open Source Web Analytics
- softWORKZ software_DNA (Software Licensing Service)
- Zelix KlassMaster™ (Java Obfuscator)
- Spotpiracy — spot, and stop piracy
- Trademark Wars — "CandySwipe" vs. "Candy Crush"
Security Technology
- NoScript (Firefox Extension) [Awesome! DONATE (upper right corner)]
- HTTPS Everywhere (Firefox Extension)
- Ghostery (Firefox Extension)
- Web of Trust ( WOT® ) (add-on/extension)
- SpywareBlaster®
- ixquick™ (Search Engine)
- TrueCrypt (Encryption)
- Flash Player — Website Storage Settings panel
System Utilities (Both Proprietary and Open Source Software)
- SpeedFan — a program that monitors voltages, fan speeds and temperatures
- Memory Cleaner
- WS_FTP® (File Transfer)
- WinZip®
- Foxit Reader (PDF)
- UEStudio (IDE)
- Diskeeper® (Disk Defragmenter/Optimizer)
- UltraMon™ (Monitor Utility)
- Unlocker (Windows File Utility)
- Winamp® (Media Player)
- Pidgin (Multi-client Instant Messaging)
- UltraVNC (Remote-control)
- PuTTY — A Free Telnet/SSH Client