Geek Game Resources

Just a place to keep links to geek game related thangs what might be of use to folks.

Useful Links

General Links

Wizards of the Coast's D&D Page (http://www.wizards.com/dnd/) -- The mothership. Has some excellent articles and some good forums to pick up ideas and tips.
Hypertext D20 SRD (http://www.d20srd.org) -- A hypertext version of the open-source D20 content. Great resource for spells, monsters and class information. Contains almost everything from the PHB, DMB, ExPH and UA.
BrosenBex Geek Games forum (http://brosenbex.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=11) -- Where it's at.

Character Sheets and Record Keeping

D&D 3E Character Sheet (http://homepage.mac.com/inik/files/D&D3E.pdf) -- Nik's custom D&D character sheet as a PDF. Slightly out of date, but still quite useful.
3E Profiler (http://www.3eprofiler.net) -- Keep character sheets online, does a lot of the calculations for you too.
CrystalBall (http://homepage.mac.com/crystalballmac/) -- The DM's best friend. Useful program which allows for character creation, monster generation, NPC tracking, random treasure generation, and a round-by-round combat tracker. As usual, it only stores SRD content, but it's fairly easily extended to include custom content. Mac only.

Tools, Utilities and Software

Aaron's die roller (http://aaronpropst.com/geek/roller.php) -- Great utility to roll dice and save sets of dice.
Bones dice rolling software (http://homepage.mac.com/christopherdrum/blogwavestudio/index.html) -- Probably the prettiest dice rolling program ever, albeit not the most powerful. Still, a good thing to keep on your computer. Mac-only.
SpellbookMaster (http://www.helsinki.fi/~pkamppur/spellbookmaster/) -- Awesome utility to track spells and quickly look them up and sort them. Like iTunes for spells. Limited to just the SRD spell list. Mac-only.
StatBlockPaster (http://www.widgetgallery.com/view.php?widget=35944) -- Konfabulator widget that lets you quickly grab the short stat block of any monster from the SRD for easy pasting into your adventure or character sheet. Mac & PC, requires Konfabulator (http://www.konfabulator.com/).
The Seventh Sanctum (http://www.seventhsanctum.com/) -- Seventh Sanctum generates random... everything. Names, villains, super-powers, treasure, all random, all just a click or two away.

Articles and How-Tos

D20 Cheat Sheet (http://homepage.mac.com/inik/files/d20cheatsheet.zip) -- A relationship diagram showing how all attributes, skills and other items on the character sheet are intertwingled.
Rules of the Game (http://wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/arch/rg) -- An ongoing column on the Wizards.com site that covers various confusing topics in detail with excellent examples. The recent series on actions (http://wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/rg/20050614a) is a must-read!
25 Tips for a Better Campaign (http://boards1.wizards.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=133046)] -- From the WotC forums. Nice tips for in and out of game courtesies that make it more fun for everyone.
Wizards.com Character Optimization Forum (http://boards1.wizards.com/forumdisplay.php?f=21) -- A haven of min-maxers beyond compare. Learn how to make your fighter deal out over 20,000 HP of damage in a single round, and how to make a 12th level character with access to 9th level spells!

The Tie Defender Campaign (http://brosenbex.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=3548) -- It was fun while it lasted, but it's over now. Still, the "holo-record" is a pretty good read if you're incredibly bored.