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| − | ===Across the Spiral Arms===
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| − | ===Adventure! RPG Campaigns===
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| − | ===Alvatia: Game Setting===
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| − | ** '''Page:''' [[ALVATIA:_Ingsby_-_Village_and_Manor|The Village and Manor of Ingsby]]
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| − | ** '''Page:''' [[ALVATIA:_City_of_Wedburgh|City_of_Wedburgh]]
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| − | Page: [[Amber RPG:_Main Page]] <br> A page open for game groups to provide details and resource on individual campaigns based on the RPG for the Amber Setting.
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| − | ===Athanatos: A Transhumanist Fantasy Setting===
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| − | A fantasy setting where powerful magics have allowed souls to stay connected to the material plane even after the death of the body.
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| − | ===Chaos Diceless===
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| − | '''Page:''' [[Chaos_Diceless|Chaos Diceless]]
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| − | Chaos, Rebma, The New Pattern and all these places you have never visited or re-invented a thousand times. They're here.
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| − | ===Conan RPG Campaigns===
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| − | ===Contribute Your Eerie Event===
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| − | ===Covenant, West Virginia===
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| − | ===Fantasy City Project===
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| − | Mages have been Earth's top predators for as long as their history records, secretly enslaving humanity to further their own ends. Their power has only ever been limited by their ability to cooperate and the little gods have been free to do with this world whatever they desired. So, throughout history, they have made war on one another.
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| − | ===Meanwhile, Back Home...===
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| − | ===Midnight RPG Campaigns===
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If you are working on a major project which you expect to span 6+ pages, please enter it alphabetically in the appropriate section of this page. Use a level 3 header, so that you'll appear in the table of contents, include a link to your project's main page, then briefly describe your project.
GM Resources
Everything needed to make a GM's life easier
General Resources and Links
These are generic resources covering various topics that might be of use to game masters.
Page: Free Adventures
Page: Free RPGs
Page: Free Software
Page: Npcs
Page: Gaming Websites
Page: Non Gaming Websites
Page: Cool Fight Locations
Page: Stereotype List
Page: Great Quotes of RPGNet
How to Run Game X
A continuation of the thread of the same name from RPOpen--game-specific advice on how to GM. Additional contributions are welcome! The main page is here, and the category page is here.
XXX: GROK IT!
A resource page with links to various "review" guides, formatted in a style similar to "For Dummies" books. Topics include games and game related material.
Page: RESOURCES: GROK IT! Guide Reviews
Short Adventures
A resource page with short adventures that GMs can drop into games to fill a night of play.
Page: Short_Adventures
Campaign Setups
A resource page filled with thumbnail designs for campaigns, campaign ideas, and outlines to help jump-start a game.
Page: Campaign_Setups
War Stories
Page: War Stories
Tales of things that have happened during your gaming sessions which can amuse other gamers or serve as inspiration for GMs.
Game Meta-Info and Logs
This is where GMs can put information relating to their specific games, such as character sheets, logs, plot threads, et cetera.
Game Info Page.
Mission Generator
A random generic Mission Generator.
Open Game Systems
A List of Games available under an Open License and thus usable for your own published games.
LARP Resources
Gender Neutral Character Names
A list of gender neutral names for those times when you don't know who will be playing a character.
RPGnet Meta-resources
The "Create a Character" Challenge
Page: The "Create a Character" Challenge
The challenge: Create one character for each game you own!
View the thread created by "chaldfont" HERE.
Overly Honest RPG Book Covers
Page: Overly Honest RPG Book Covers
An archive of the hilarious images generated by the RPGnet thread of the same name.
View the thread created by "Neko Ewen" HERE.
Number Lists
Page: Number Lists
A collection of various open-ended lists that have sprung up over time and added to by various users, presented here in a more read-friendly format.
RPG Motivational Posters
Page: Motivational_Posters:Main_Page
A collection of the posters from the Ultra-Thread on Roleplaying Open, "RPG Motivational Posters" Still being transferred--please check the Template page before contributing!
RPGnet Thread Archive
Page: Forums Archive
A user created archive of classic threads, in the spirit of the old "Best Of Forums" page. Organized by forum, and alphabetics.
RPGnet Gatherings
Page: RPGnet_Gatherings
For information regarding any official meetups, gatherings and get togethers of RPGnet members.
Tangency Timeline
Page: Tangency Timeline
A timeline of important dates in the history of Tangency.
Let's Play Threads
Page: Let's Play Threads
An archive of Let's Play threads from Video Games Open
System Supplements
This is a list of supplements for specific game systems. Please be sure to list which game system your supplement is for if you include something in this section. (If you prefer to search by system then look at the Special:Categories page.)
For ease of use, this section has been moved to a sub-page, Please see here.
Terminology
These are guides to common rpg terminology.
Game title abbreviation
Page: Game_title_abbreviations
This is a collection of abbreviations used for various games and game lines.
RPG Lexica
A collection of Gamer Jargon--terms used by the players as opposed to the game's authors and designers.
Still very much a work in progress... please contribute!
What's in a (GM's) Name?
Page: Referee
This is a collection of various game master names for different games
MMORPG Guilds
Blacksky Company (WoW Kirin Tor Horde)
Pig and Whistle Society (WoW Kirin Tor Alliance)
Meta Forces (CoH/CoV)
Versus Gloria Omnis (Eve Online)
