While looking for resources for that game or that scenario you come upon the occasional online gem! These are a few that we have found most useful.
Being a Great DM
- Online DM Screen – quick info for the 5e DM
- World Anvil – worldbuilding tool for Tabletop RPG Storytellers and Authors
- How to be a great GM – Youtube channel
Encounter Building
- Kobold Fight Club Plan, Manage, Run your 5e Encounters
- Unearthed Arcana – Wizards of the Coast Unearthed Arcana: Encounter Building (PDF)
- Sky Flourish – Great Article on Building Encounters in Fifth Edition Dungeons & Dragons
General Great Stuff
- 5etools – A suite of tools for 5th Edition Dungeons & Dragons players and Dungeon Masters.
- Open5e – Open5e aims to be the best open-source resource for 5e content.
- Fitz’s roleplaying stuff – another player who has some great idea
- https://jsigvard.com/dnd/ – Usefull Lists & Tables
- Merric’s Musings – Great Reviews and advice
- Weight Chart for Non-Living Substances
- Randomise a List – A form to permit you to arrange the items of a list in random order
Tools for the Table Top
- Paper Tokens Generator print round or squared creature tokens.
- Token Stamp – Make a Roll20 Token
- Printable Heros creates print-ready paper miniatures
- Paper Mage Paper Miniatures
- Printable Card and Tent Cards
- pre-made characters
Other
- RPG Table Finder – With over 100s of Tables from around the world, you can find your next role playing group here
Generators
- donjon RPG Tools almost everything
- Random Generators of Things
- Name Generator
- Location Generator
- Random Magical Effects
- NPC Personalities
- Fantastic Descriptions
- Dungeon Master Tools
Wizardawn - Kasson great content, generators and more
- Tavern/Menu Random Generator
- Spell Book Generator
- NPC Generators
Maps
- Planet Map generator
- Map Building –
inkarnate - Map Building – pyromancers
- Medieval Fantasy City Generator
- Toy Town – 3d visualizer for Medieval Fantasy City Generator
- Fantasy-Map-Generator (azgaar)
- WONDERDRAFT – is an intuitive yet powerful fantasy map creation tool for 64-bit Windows 10, Linux, and MacOSX.
- DUNGEONFOG – Online map maker & authoring tool for RPG game masters
Tools for Digital Table Top
Actions & Combat Cheat Sheets
Note: These references provide the same information, but have different presentations. Pick the one you like best.
- Player’s Actions and Effects QuickRef – Website based
- Player Reference Sheet – One page, dense and thorough
- Combat Cheat Sheet (Basic) – One page, simple
- Combat Cheat Sheet – Rolling initiative, actions, attacks
- Combat Reference Sheet – 2 pages
- Player Reference Sheet – 4 pages, detailed
- Checks and Combat Cheat Sheet
