Fantasy Resources

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• The Alchemy Website

• Beej's Pirate Image Archive
• Elfwood Project
  Elfwood is the largest science fiction and fantasy art site in the world
• Fantasy
  Art by Selina Fenech
• Pen & Paper ArtShop
  Brian LeBlanc, Jeremy Jarvis, Leif Jones
• RPG Art
  By Alan Pollack
• RPG-ART
  Roleplaying game illustrations by William McAusland
• The Erol Otus Shrine
  Old skool D&D illustration goodness!

• Explore The Rafters
  Victoriana clipart
• Landsknecht woodcuts
  by St. Maximilian Landsknecht Re-enactment Guild
• Medieval woodcuts and clipart
  Here is a collection of medieval clipart culled from various periodsources, most notably woodcuts of the 15th&16th centuries.
• World of Miss Mary
  High Quality Victorian clip art for your digital design andscrapbooking projects.

• Alchemy and Symbols
• Heraldic Charges
• Symbols

• Elfworld
• Other Worlds

• Here Be Dragons
  Your online dragon resource for everything you want to know about dragons: Dragon history, dragon tattoos, dragon art, pictures of dragons, as well as dragon links to find gifts, collectables and figurines for the dragonlover in your life
• The Dragon Bestiary
  Translated from German

• Fantasy HERO Treasure Trove
• Surbrook's Stuff
  “Surbrook's Stuff” has a large collection of creatures from manysources suitable for fantasy gaming, in the section on Creatures From Myth And Legend
• Sysabend
  Webdirectory for Hero
• The SavageEarth
  Fantasy anthropomorphic
• Ultimate Grimoire
  Ultimate Grimoire is a source for HERO 5E magicspells and items, and spell system design advice.
• High Fantasy HERO
  Killer Shrike's High Fantasy HERO site. Hundreds of Race and Profession Packages, thousands of spells and heroic effects, dozens of Magic Systems and Characters, highly detailed conversions of D&D and Warhammer FRPG editions, and many long articles full of discussion, advice, and guidelines on diverse topics of importance to the Fantasy genre such as arms and armaments, magic system design, limitations to use to simulate different kinds of magical effects, starting character considerations, and so on.

• Alternate Timelines
• Camelot In Four Colors
  A Survey of the Arthurian Legend in Comics
• DarkStorm Legends
  Sword & Sorcery
• DMOZ webdirectory
• How to write a best selling fantasy novel
• Medicinal and Magickal Herb List
• On Thud and Blunder
  An Essay by Poul Anderson
• Religion & roleplaying
• The Encyclopedia Mythica
  A very broad quick-reference to mythology and folklore from aroundthe world
• The Great Net Equipment List
  (very old skool)
• The Guideto Herbs for RPGs
  4th Edition By Shaun Hately
• Tales of Terror
  Horror plot seeds

• A Study of Period Rapiers
  Rapiers
• By The Sword,Inc
  Fine Quality Reproductions for the Serious Collector andRe-enactor
• DiGrassi's fencing manual
• Nova Scrimia
  Fencing Re-Enactment group

• Ardalambion
  Of the Tongues of Arda, the invented world of J.R.R. Tolkien
• Enigman's Favourite Latin Sayings
  Latin
• The Language Construction Kit
  The Language Construction Kit

• A course in Quenya
  Tolkien
• Book of the Missed Words
  Tolkien
• Elven Language
  another elvish language, not invented by Tolkien
• Elvish Dictionary
  Elvish Dictionary (Tolkien)
• The Noble Tongue
  Tolkien

• Dutch Cities
  Dutch City maps from the Blaeu Atlas
• Historic Cities
  Historic Cities
• Inns of Hârn Project
  Inns and Taverns of Hârn
• London 1859
  Victorian age detailed map of London
• Maps and More
  Fantasy maps
• Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection
  Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection

• Kate Monk's Onomastikon
  Historical names from around the world
• Medieval names
  Medieval names
• Medieval Names Archive
  Medieval Names Archive
• Name Generator
  Everchanging Book of Names
• The Hobbit Name Generator

• Irony Games
  Many mapping random generators
• Map Generators
• Random Society Generator
• Seventh Sanctum
  Many random generators of many genres
• The Domesday Book
  Medieval Demographics

• Cracks and Shards
  Observations on Dragaera
• Dragaera
• Small Invisible Lights
  Dzurlord - A Crossroads Adventure in the World of Steven Brust'sJhereg

• Cormanthyr
  Cormanthyr is a subsidiary site of the Dlabraddath net. It is asite dedicated to Dungeons and Dragons Elves, especially those of the ForgottenRealms ~ their sub races; psychology; mental and physical attributes; culture and society; deities and religion; history; NPCs; music language and more.

• Hero Wars
  This site is dedicated to the roleplaying game HeroQuest (formerly known as Hero Wars), and the fantasy world Glorantha. If you want to now moreabout HeroQuest and Glorantha, check out the official homepage.
• HeroQuest
  HeroQuest is a roleplaying game set in the mythical world of Glorantha. Go to our products page for a complete listing of available products.
• Heroquest Glorantha
  The old world is over, and we must exterminate Chaos to saveit.
• Pete's Runequest andRoleplaying
  It's one of the oldest online, and a lot of material has accumulated over time. You'll find adventures, art, NPCs, and tons of otherstuff here.
• Wesley's Glorantha Site
  Glorantha is a world of Myth and Magic where Man lives side-by-side with Uz, Mostali, Aldyra, Drulz and other stranger races.

• Harnmaster.net
  HarnWorld/HarnMaster - currently offline
• Kelestia
  HarnWorld/HarnMaster
• Open Directory
  HarnWorld/HarnMaster
• The Tower Hills
  HarnWorld/HarnMaster

• Hoom! Maps -Walking Directions
  Walking directions to Mordor (humour)
• Nazgul
  Welcome to the best guide to all the black riders of J.R.R Tolkien.A Fast Guide to the Nine Black Riders of Mordor can be found here, More Info about each of them can be found on their own link. This Guide was researched byjonas.astrand@dialog.se
• The Encyclopaedia ofArda
  Tolkein
• The One Ring.net
• Tolkein Online
  Welcome to Tolkien Online - The One Ring, acknowledged as theultimate LOTR site by Empire, as featured in Wired Magazine, and recognized byCNN as a leading Lord of the Rings fan site!
• Tolkien-related RPG Links
• Webring
  Homepage for the Rolemaster/MERP Webring

• MadAlfred's Warhammer Fantasy RolePlay (WFRP) Page
  This page is primarily dedicated to the Warhammer Fantasy RolePlaygame, with some secondary bits for Warhammer Fantasy Battle and 40K
• The Bretonnia Project “The corrupt kingdom of Bretonnia” is a complete non-arthurian
  Bretonnian sourcebook for WFRP
• Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay WFRP was born in 1986, created by Games Workshop.
• Warhammer Forever Website
• Warpstone Magazine
• Warhammer FRPG 1e to HERO System Conversion by Killer Shrike
• Warhammer FRPG 2e to HERO System Conversion by Killer Shrike

• AutoREALM
  A detailed free fantasy mapping program for interiors and exteriors, with optional square or hex grid overlay.
• Dundjinni
  Not only a great mapping tool, but the user forums have tons of maps/adventures posted. Unfortunately specifically tailored to D20.
• MapX
  A great free mapping tool. The author is currently putting out a new version called DewMap, but the current version of MapX can still be downloaded.
• OpenOffice.org
  This great office suite has a drawing program that is very adept at making maps. Layering, transparency, and clip-art are all supported.
• OpenRPG
  Online virtual tabletop
• PCGen
  Character creation program (generic)

• Steampunk
  Victorian Adventurers in a Past that Wasn't
• Steamtrek
• The Arbatel of Magick
  Victorian-style magick

• Fantasy Worldbuilding Questions
  (by Patricia Wrede)
• Open Directory Project
• The Fantasy Worldbuilders' Forum
• World Builder Projects
  This is a links portal to various world-building information, witha few personal projects of my own listed at the bottom.
• World Builders
  Curriculum of course