Greenfish Fantasy Relief Map Generator

http://greenfish.extra.hu/downloads.php

Last on page.  Generates random relief-type maps.  If you need to be told why this might be useful, you need a new hobby.

Courtesy jswa:-

• The Hybrid rpg livejournal - no-one can explain to you what Hybrid is. You must experience it for yourself.
  

   How to post on rpg.net and not get banned. Requires registration on the site to view. Note that this post would get me banned if I posted it today; those were the old, less lawful days.

This looks like it was deleted in the last (and first, I think) purge of old posts. Did you keep it somewhere?

Nope, no reason to keep it.

I've removed that link and rearranged the other two into the comedy section.

Here's one for the RPG Campaigns list: http://www.coinich.com/traveller/portal.php. (Yes, I'm a member, and am shamelessly self-promoting it.)

Monstropedia: http://www.monstropedia.org/index.php?title=Main_Page

An online encyclopedia of monsters from mythology and legend.

Courtesy of Chowgiz's Old Guy RPG blog, we have what are basically dungeon maps with the volume turned up to 11.

• Theban Mapping Project, "a comprehensive archaeological database of Thebes [...] the TMP has concentrated on the Valley of the Kings. Modern surveying techniques were used to measure its tombs. From the data collected, the TMP is preparing 3-D computer models of the tombs."
  
• Pyramids and Temples of Egypt, "information on pyramids and temples, which includes computer-generated reconstructions of what the pyramids and temples might have looked like when they were first built [...] many interactive ground plan maps, photos, paintings and drawings".
  

I'm also adding a link to RPG Bloggers network, which is a feed of many rpg blogs - how I found Chowgiz's blog.

I feel slighted...

::looks at post 75, weeps::

Free original & classic adventures for D&D, available from Wizards of the Coast's website.

The Soldier in later Medieval England.

From the BBC's report:

QuoteMedieval battle records go online

The detailed service records of 250,000 medieval soldiers - including archers who served with Henry V at the Battle of Agincourt - have gone online.

The database of those who fought in the Hundred Years War reveals salaries, sickness records and who was knighted.

The full profiles of soldiers from 1369 to 1453 will allow researchers to piece together details of their lives.

Thomas, Lord Despenser is the youngest soldier on the database, whose career began when he was aged just 12 in 1385.

Elsewhere, the career of Thomas Gloucestre, who fought at Agincourt, can be traced over 43 years and includes campaigns in Prussia and Jerusalem.

'Remarkable survival'

The website is the product of a research project by Professor Anne Curry of the University of Southampton and Dr Adrian Bell of the University of Reading.

Dr Bell said: "The service records survive because the English exchequer had a very modern obsession with wanting to be sure that the government's money was being spent as intended.

"Therefore we have the remarkable survival of indentures for service detailing the forces to be raised, muster rolls showing this service and naming every soldier from duke to archer."

He said accounts from captains showing how funds were spent and entries detailing when the exchequer requested the payments can be found.

The free-to-use website, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, also shows which soldiers rode the furthest.

Some links for inspirations on mostly Steampunk/19th century stuff:

Articles from 19th century British newspapers searchable by keywords. Lots of free content.
http://newspapers.bl.uk/blcs/
Other interesting stuff from newspapers:
http://www.paleofuture.com/blog/category/1880s

Crazy steampunk tech:
http://davidszondy.com/future/war/gyro.htm
German:
http://einestages.spiegel.de/external/ShowTopicAlbumBackground/a1970/l0/l0/F.html#featuredEntry
Newer stuff:
http://blog.modernmechanix.com/issue/?magname=PopularElectronics&magdate=12-1958

I have added a section for retro-clones, since those are all free rpgs.

All sorts of fan-created goodies - alien generators, complete systems, etc etc - are available at BRP Central's downloads area.

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