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TTRPG Resources 1.9

This document provides a list of resources for tabletop roleplaying game (TTRPG) design including: - Tools for accessibility, dice rollers, graphic design, keeping notes organized, map/dungeon making, mockups, and more. - Guides on game design, hacking existing systems, online play, random generators, royalty-free assets, templates and recurring design challenges. - Writing resources like fonts and advice for developing creativity when designing TTRPGs such as accepting imperfection, building habits, and focusing on utility for players and GMs.

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TTRPG Resources 1.9

This document provides a list of resources for tabletop roleplaying game (TTRPG) design including: - Tools for accessibility, dice rollers, graphic design, keeping notes organized, map/dungeon making, mockups, and more. - Guides on game design, hacking existing systems, online play, random generators, royalty-free assets, templates and recurring design challenges. - Writing resources like fonts and advice for developing creativity when designing TTRPGs such as accepting imperfection, building habits, and focusing on utility for players and GMs.

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Contents

Accessibility ..................................................................................................... 1
Dice rollers ....................................................................................................... 1
Game design .................................................................................................... 1
Game design – playtesting .............................................................................. 2
TTRPG Resources Graphic design tools ........................................................................................ 2
Itch.io resources and tutorials ........................................................................ 2
Keeping your notes organized ........................................................................ 2
Map/dundeon making .................................................................................... 3
Mockups........................................................................................................... 3
OLG/SRD and TTRPG systems to hack ............................................................ 3
Online play ....................................................................................................... 4
Online play – token generators ....................................................................... 4
Random generators ......................................................................................... 4
Royalty-free music ........................................................................................... 4
Safety Tools...................................................................................................... 4
COMPILED BY MARTA “MINAKIE” AFONSO Stock icons/images/patterns/vectors ............................................................ 4
Templates ........................................................................................................ 4
TTRPG recurring challenges............................................................................. 5
Writing/typing resources ................................................................................ 5
Writing/typing resources - fonts ..................................................................... 5
Other resources ............................................................................................... 5
TTRPG Resources compiled by Marta “Minakie” Afonso

ACCESSIBILITY • Getting started in tabletop roleplaying game • SYWCTTRPG?: Create a Praise File, with nice
design things people have said about your work
• Accessibility in gaming, part 4: accessibility in
• Guide to building a SRD • SYWCTTRPG?: Create artificial limitations to
tabletop RPGs
• Hack the RPG – create your own roleplaying foster your creativity
• Accessibility in tabletop resources
game • SYWCTTRPG?: Create the TTRPG you want to
• Accessibility resources for gaming
• How to make a WSCA game play
• Color accessibility tools
• How to make your RPG-story game more • SYWCTTTRPG?: Create TTRPG that are love
• Color blind friendly palette
healing therapeutic letters to your favorite creators
• Color contrast checker
• How to start making games • SYWCTTRPG?: Create with intentionality
• How to make text accessible to people with
• How to write a roleplaying game • SYWCTTRPG?: Designing locations
disabilities
• Learn how to create your own RPG! • SYWCTTRPG?: Don’t hold the rules of games as
• How to use color blind filters on Canva
• LEVEL 0: How to start designing your first sacred
• Making your text accessible
tabletop role-playing game? • SYWCTTRPG?: Don’t try to compete with big
• Open dyslexic
• Lumpley Games brand TTRPG in their big brand terms
• Readability: the optimal line length
• Make a Wretched game • SYWCTTRPG?: Don’t worry too much about
• Who can use
• Mythic Table doing research
• One Card RPGs game design • SYWCTTRPG?: Establishing a routine to create
DICE ROLLERS • RPG Design TTRPG is super important
• RPG design zine • SYWCTTRPG?: Figure out what you want to get
• A Wretched & Alone dice roller better at and learn that in public
• SYWCTTRPG?: Accept that not every thing you
• Another Wretched & Alone dice roller • SYWCTTRPG: Focus on utility. For GMs and for
create will be great
• Any Dice players
• SYWCTTRPG?: Accept that your games won’t be
• Online dice & coin flip • SYWCTTRPG?: Give your characters pairs of
perfect
• Roll a die apparently contradictory characteristics
SYWCTTRPG?: Always carry a notebook with
• The Wretched & Alone dice roller you • SYWCTTRPG?: Go do something boring
• Virtual dice roller • SYWCTTRPG?: Be an amateur when you create • SWYCTTRPG?: Insert as much of yourself and
RPG your humanity as you can in your craft
GAME DESIGN • SYWCTTRPG?: Be interested to be interesting • SYWCTTRPG?: Keep more than one project “in
• Cultivating creativity • SYWCTTRPG?: Be ready to face criticism the works”
• Design patterns of successful role-playing games • SYWCTTRPG?: Be ready to create • SYWCTTRPG?: Know that you don’t have an
• Design values of digital role-playing games • SYWCTTRPG?: Build a habit of trying and opinion about everything
• Four axes of game design exploring bee things in your creative process • SYWCTTRPG?: Learn to deal with imperfection
• Game design • SYWCTTRPG?: Build on your weaknesses and • SYWCTTRPG?: Learn to handle your inner critic
• Game design and role-playing games make them your strengths • SYWCTTRPG?: Learn to see things beyond good
• SWYCTTRPG?: Control your ego or bad

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TTRPG Resources compiled by Marta “Minakie” Afonso

• SYWCTTRPG?: Leave the editing for the editing • TTRPG creator tip: make a thing you would • Viva designer
phase enjoy
• SYWCTTRPG?: Let go of external validation • TTRPG design lenses
• SYWCTTRPG?: Move fast and break things • Writing and designing TTRPG with neuroses
ITCH.IO RESOURCES AND TUTORIALS
• SYWCTTRPG?: Do not neglect your other • Writing for accessibility • Accepting payments and getting paid
passions! • You Have Two Stats • Content creator quality guidelines
• SYWCTTRPG?: Please be good • CSS customization guide
• SYWCTTRPG?: Seek different references • Designing your page

GAME DESIGN – PLAYTESTING
SYWPTTRPG?: Start by writing your game’s • Digital coupon template for physical games
Table of Content! • Playtest your game with designers to see how • Download keys
• SYWCTTRPG?: Stay out of fights and say nice bad it is. Playtest your game with the general • Easy Releasy templates
things public to see how good it is. • Game jam theme generator
• SYWCTTRPG?: Step away from the computer • Playtesting struggles: what if you can’t playtest? • Hosting a sale or bundle
and devices for a while • How buying works
• SYWCTTRPG?: The 3 by 3 method GRAPHIC DESIGN TOOLS • How to add Community Copies
• SYWCTTRPG?: To be wild and creative when you • How to set up itch funding
• Adobe color
create TTRPG, it might help to be “safe” IRL • Itch funding & Gdocs
• Canva
• SYWCTTRPG?: Try to create the TTRPG by the • Release announcements
• Canva's color palette generator
central element of the game you want to make • Stressful and exciting: an End of the Line RPG
• Card boarders
• SYWCTTRPG?: We learn by copying others guide to Itch funding
• Color hunt
• SYWCTTRPG?: When stuck, try using prompts to • The Itch Game Page Image Guide & Templates
• Color scheme designer
jumpstart your imagination • Who can download my game when I convert it
• Color space
• SYWCTTRPG?: When you are creating from free to paid?
• Coolors
something for players to interact with, • Writing rules: reading comprehension and
remember that TTRPG is a game about their • Figma
retention
choices • Gimp
• SYWCTTRPG?: Worry less about your ideas, and • Hex color info
more about how you execute them • Hue mint KEEPING YOUR NOTES ORGANIZED
• SYWCTTRPG? [Portuguese and Italian • Khroma
• ChronoGrapher
translations] • Lucidpress
• Evernote
• Tabletop roleplaying game design • Photopea
• Kanka
• The art of the System Reference Document: • Scribus
• Milanote
uses • Social sizes
• Miro
• Thoughts on Forging in the Dark • Spring publisher
• Notebook
• Swift publisher
• Notion
• Tiny eye labs

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• Obsidian Portal MOCKUPS • Guided by the Sun SRD


• Plot Factory • Gratitude Creator’s Kit
• Alien valley
• Realm Works • Gumshoe SRD
• Free mockups
• Scabard • Harmony Drive
• Ls graphics
• Scrivener • Hopes & Dreams SRD
• Shot snap
• Trello • Into the Odd SRD
• We graphics
• World Anvil • Iron Core
• yWriter • Ironsworn SRD
• Lasers & Feelings
OLG/SRD AND TTRPG SYSTEMS TO HACK • Leads SRD
MAP/DUNDEON MAKING
• 13th Age SRD • Lost & Found
• Cave Generator • 2d20 SRD • Lost Eons
• Dungeon Builder • 24XX SRD • Lumen
• Dungeon drawing guide • 4d4s SRD • Mausritter TPL
• Dungeon Fog • Apocalypse World • Miso
• Dungeon Generator • Blades in the Dark SRD • Mörk Borg OGL
• Dungeon Painter Studio • Belonging Outside Belonging • Motif OGL
• Dungeon Scrawl • Breathless SRD • OpenD6 OGL
• Dungeonware Hex Assets • Cairn SRD • Paragon
• Hex Kit • Caltrop Core • Personae
• Hex tiles: fantasy • Carta • Pit Drive
• Inkarnate • Charge SRD • Push SRD
• Map editor 2 • CORE Micro • Query Six
• Medieval Fantasy City Generator • Cypher OGL • Quest SRD
• Mini Map Helper • d20PFSRD • Quest Worlds
• Modular Hexmap Pack • D-Cypher • Rise SRD
• Neighbourhood Generator • Death in Space • Schema
• One Page Dungeon • Dice Goblin SRD • Second Guess SRD
• Perilous Shores • Diversified SRD • Simple World
• Toy Town • Drama System SRD • Spirals
• Village Generator • Dungeons & Dragons 5e SRD • Starjammer SRD
• Wanderdraft • Fate SRD • Stars Without Number
• Folds SRD • The Grove System SRD
• Four Points SRD • The House Doesn’t Always Win
• Freeform Ultimate • The Pool

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• This Game Takes Place Anywhere SRD • GROK?! Actor generator • Flaticon
• Tiny D6 • Lyric game generator • Free illustrations
• Tiny Tokens • Micro-RPG generator • Free nature stock
• Total//Effect SRD • Poetry generator • Freepik
• Troika! • RPG generator • Game icons
• Trophy • Rune generator • Icons8
• Two Summers SRD • The public tarot: generative fortunes • Ion icons
• VIIN • The RPG story constructor • Kaboompics
• Wretched & Alone SRD • TTRPG generator • Life of pix
• Two stats • New old stock
• Unlooted: astronomical events & portents • Old book illustrations
ONLINE PLAY
• Unlooted: monster generator • Open game art
• Astral Tabletop • Zombie generator • Pattern monster
• Battlegounds RPG Edition • Pexels
• EpicTable Virtual Tabletop • Pixabay

ROYALTY-FREE MUSIC
Fantasy Grounds • Raw pixel
• Foundry Virtual Tabletop • Ambient-Mixer • The noun project
• gTove • BeSound • Unsplash
• MapTool • MixKit • Vector wiki
• PlayingCards • Pixabay • We graphics
• Rolisteam • Serpent Sound Studios
• Roll20
TEMPLATES
SAFETY TOOLS
• 5-min-games_templates
ONLINE PLAY – TOKEN GENERATORS • I X-carded myself… • 8- or 16-page zine template for legal-size paper
• Token editor • Safety Tools and wellbeing for TTRPG • Figma templates
• Token generator • Safety tools for tabletop RPGs • How to make cool TTRPG pamphlets
• Token stamp • TTRPG Safety Toolkit • Modular character sheet assets
• TTRPG Safety Toolkit (German translation) • One page zine template
RANDOM GENERATORS • Print-and-play business card-sized game
template
• Drug generator STOCK ICONS/IMAGES/PATTERNS/VECTORS • Simple world (PbtA template)
• Fantasy name generator
• 6000+ free line icons • Single-sheet 1/4 fold-over zine template
• Game idea generator
• Burst • Standardcat template pack
• Genre mashup generator
• Dribble • Template pack: trifolds

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• TTRPG social media templates • Font desk • What is a roleplaying game?


• We graphics • Font space • Write Skyscrapers
• Google fonts • Your own NPC pack
• Mailbag: self-training in narrative design
TTRPG RECURRING CHALLENGES
• The font collection
• 200 Word RPG Challenge • Use & modify
• NaGaDeMon • We graphics
• One-Page RPG Jam • What is Dicier?
• RPGénesis Jam
• WorldEmber
OTHER RESOURCES
• Any dice
WRITING/TYPING RESOURCES
• Blades Affinity templates
• Cold Turkey • Build your own TTRPG asset pack
• Editing for TTRPG: a primer for non-editors • Clockwork
• Epystory • Collaborative storytelling examples and
• Grammarly resources
• Guidelines for a successful writing group • Creative fabrica
• Hemingway • Critical hits
• LibreOffice • Dice breaker
• OpenOffice • Discord servers
• Pratical typography • E-book express
• ProWrittingAid • Free resources
• Tipp10 • Funding
• Twinword Writer • One last thing…
• TypefasterTyping Tutor • One page lore: fantasy folk
• Typeracer • Onomaton
• Typing techniques • PDF conversion to booklet/flipbook
• RPG solo
• Story your way to a logo
WRITING/TYPING RESOURCES - FONTS
• Tabletop TRPG icon pack
• 1001 fonts • The paper project
• Atipo foundry • Tome of rites and rituals
• da font • TTRPG creator resource database
• Font brief • Virtual card oracle

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