There are a lot of resources on the net that are not gaming related but still work wonderfully for games. Museums, especially are more and more getting on-line, and lots of people are writing about their favorite historical period.
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- Alien Planet Designer
- You can design your planets here and get back technical information about each one.
- Alternate Histories
- Links to alternate worlds of all kinds, from Tsarist Russia (1996) to the Brewpubs of New Amsterdam.
- Dungeon Downloads
- Download PDFs that you can print out and use to create staircases, bridges and walls. Pretty cool stuff. Helps to have a color printer and stiffer paper.
- George Ruban’s Role-Playing
- Some Call of Cthulhu scenario notes as well as links for the HTMLHero Javascript application.
- Glossary of Castle Terms
- Very cool, it contains not only short descriptions of parts of castles such as “battlements” and “crenelation”, but it also contains photos of those castle parts from real castles.
- Hell’s Angels
- A piercing vision into the why of every group in the motorcycle gang scare of the sixties: outlaws and squares and cops.
- Internet Medieval Sourcebook
- Lots of links to medieval texts and translations, organized by time period.
- Legends
- Robin Hood, the Three Musketeers, and other heroes of legend explained. Pirates and more! Wonderful site.
- Magic in Antiquity
- At the University of Michigan, on-line exhibit. This is real stuff, folks, not Players’ Handbook junk.
- Map Generator
- This is pretty impressive. Not only will it provide the village map as a PNG, but it provides a Persistence of Vision file so that you can easily add your own features, adjust the lighting and perspective, and render your own 3D map.
- Poking people with a sharp stick
- “Before we can understand the development of the sword we need to understand what a sword is intended to do. Basically, when you hit someone with a sword, the intension from a physics perspective is to transfer all the energy in the sword and sword arm into the body of your opponent.”
- Ravensgard Medieval Cultural Background
- Lots of links to things like “Sex in the middle ages” and “Plague and Public Health in Renaissance Europe”. This is apparently from the perspective of a family that does medieval stuff.
- The Medieval Technology Pages
- Wildly cool listing of various technologies such as the compass, mirrors, windmills, even the wheelbarrow, and when they came into use around the world, although mostly in reference to the European middle ages. Includes drawings from the time illustrating usage.
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