Help:D&D Links
D&D Wiki is not affiliated with the following websites.
As per Help:Policies the following external links are the only ones that may be referenced. However, the external link reference does not have to be in the same format as the following external links.
If you have a link which you want to add feel free to add it or discuss it. If a link has already been discussed and a verdict has been reached about its quality you may not add it again. However, you may continue to discuss it if you have something new to add to the discussion.
Official Sites
- Wizards of the Coast — http://www.wizards.com
- The Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition Game System License — http://www.wizards.com/d20
- d20 System Archive — Relevant to 3rd edition: Open Gaming License, SRD, etc — http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=d20/article/srdarchive
News and Forums
- ENWorld — http://www.enworld.org
- RED&DIT — D&D on Reddit — https://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/
- Blog of Holding — Blog for D&D design — http://blogofholding.com/
Tools
- WotC Die Roller — https://www.wizards.com/dnd/dice/dice.htm
- WotC Online Tools — http://archive.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/arch/tools
Map-Making Tools
- Online
- WoTC Dungeon Tiles Mapper — Uses low-resolution images of the first offical dungeon tile set — http://www.wizards.com/dnd/dungeontilesmapper/
- Dave's Mapper — Geotile mapper for making dungeons, caverns, villages, cities and spaceships — http://davesmapper.com/
- Dungeon Painter Online — Flash-based online map tileset, with support for custom tiles. — http://pyromancers.com/dungeon-painter-online/
- Polygon Map Generation demo — Fun random polygon mag generator, offering something to test until you get an island for your campaign! http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~amitp/game-programming/polygon-map-generation/demo.html
- Downloadable
- Heroscribe — Tile-based dungeon mapper based on tiles from board games like Hero Quest — http://www.heroscribe.org/heroquest.html
- Monster Maker — Creates 4e monster statblocks — http://www.asmor.com/programs/monstermaker/index.php
Random Generators
- Donjon — More generators than you can shake a stick at; some specific to each edition of D&D — http://donjon.bin.sh/
- DunGen — High resolution Dungeon Generator, creates perfectly aligned maps at up to 140px per tile to import directly into your favorite virtual tabletop. https://dungen.app/
- Dungeons TOME — Random dungeon generator based on the D&D Dungeon Master's Guide random dungeon generator tables — https://www.dungeonstome.com/
- Serendipity — Name generators — http://nine.frenchboys.net/
- 20,000+ Names From Around the World!— Real-world historical and modern names — http://www.20000-names.com/
- Behind the Name — Randomizer for historical, modern and fantasy names — http://www.behindthename.com/random/
- The Pathology Guy — Character generators for 3.5e, Pathfinder, 4e and 5e
- Myth Weathers — Maintainer's of Jamis Buck's 3.5e generators: NPCs, Dungeons, Towns, Treasure, Point Buy Calculator
Homebrewing Tools
- Kobold Fight Club
- Encounter building tool for 5th edition.
- AnyDice
- A powerful tool for calculating and portraying the probability of results from virtually any die rolling mechanic. Useful when writing houserules which rely on new rolling mechanics, or for dissecting the game's rules.
Publishers
- D&D
- Green Ronin Publishing — http://www.greenronin.com/
- Malhavoc Press — http://www.montecook.com/cgi-bin/page.cgi?malhavoc
- Mongoose Publishing — http://www.mongoosepublishing.com
- Sword and Sorcery Studios— http://www.white-wolf.com/swordsorcery
- Paizo — http://www.paizo.com
Resellers
- Drive Thru RPG — brief website description of how it relates to D&D — http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/index.php?cPath=1
Wiki's
- MediaWiki.org — the website dealing with MediaWiki — http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki
Good Reading
- Monte Cook — brief website description of how it relates to D&D — http://www.montecook.com
- Wikipedia: Dungeons and Dragons — brief website description of how it relates to D&D — http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeons_%26_Dragons
- Wikipedia:Editions of D&D — brief website description of how it relates to D&D — http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Editions_of_Dungeons_%26_Dragons
Software
- RPTools — Suite of free tools to argument a PnP game or run one online — http://rptools.net/doku.php
- PCGen Character Tool — Very Detailed Character building tool. — http://pcgen.sourceforge.net/01_overview.php
- Fantasy Grounds — A virtual tabletop that has a number of automated functions. Can be used to host games. — http://fantasygrounds.com
Editions
AD&D
- OSRIC, 1st Edition clone — OGL-licensed AD&D 1e simulacrum, intended for use as old-school SRD — http://www.knights-n-knaves.com/osric/
- Purple Worm A site focusing on 2nd edition AD&D. http://www.purpleworm.org
3.X Variants
- Basic Fantasy — brief website description of how it relates to D&D — http://www.basicfantasy.org/main.html
- E6 — brief website description of how it relates to D&D — http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=206323
- Pathfinder — Alternate SRD, mostly compatible with 3.5e. — http://paizo.com/pathfinder
- True20 — More generic and Story oriented game system, some d20 content can be used with it with little conversion effort. — http://true20.com/
5th
- Roll 20 5e Compendium — WotC licensed redistributor of official 5e content. You may use this to reference rules and material that are not part of the SRD if it is available through their service. &mdash https://roll20.net/compendium/dnd5e/BookIndex
Previous Edition Support
- Dragonsfoot, support for all previous editions — popular web forums for pre-3e D&D and old-school simulacrum games with fan-created downloadable content — http://www.dragonsfoot.org/
- WotC: Previous Edition Downloads — brief website description of how it relates to D&D — http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/dnd/downloads
- TSR Archiv An archive listing all sorts of published game materials. http://tsrarchive.cim
Social Networking
- D&D Wiki Facebook — brief website description of how it relates to D&D — http://www.facebook.com/pages/DD-Wiki/183285371725118
Images
You can externally link to an image, but please make sure that you are linking to the original (i.e. the artist's personal, or otherwise endorsed, page). It is courtesy to attribute the artist and provide a link. Good places to find fantasy images are:
- Flickr — http://www.flickr.com — There is a D&D group at https://www.flickr.com/groups/dungeons_and_dragons/pool/
- DeviantArt — http://www.deviantart.com/browse/all/
- Pixiv — http://www.pixiv.net/
- ArtStation https://www.artstation.com/
External links are commonly too large for a wiki page, though . Flickr images sometimes provide a sharing link for different sizes; deviantArt generates thumbnails that can be linked to. While images uploaded to D&D Wiki can be resized, do not upload an image under copyright without the author's permission.
- Old Book Art — http://www.oldbookart.com/ — Public domain art from old books, scanned and released under Creative Commons.
Back to Main Page → Meta Pages