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Past and present tabletop RPG companies
- Atlas Games
- Avalon Hill Games
(Redirects to Wizards of the Coast as at September 2004) - Chaosium [link dead]
Pendragon
Runequest
Nephilim
Elric
Call of Cthulhu - FASA
Shadowrun
Battletech - Flying Buffalo
City Books
Tunnels & Trolls. See also the TnT section below - Games Workshop
Warhammer Fantasy
Warhammer 40K
Trollslayer, the official Bill King website
(Author of the Warhammer Gotrek & Felix Novels, amongst others) - Imperium Games [link gone]
Traveller
- Iron Crown
Rolemaster
Middle Earth - MERP - Palladium
Pallalium FRPG
Rifts
Some excellent weapons compendiums too
(Damn but the website is ugly and dated!) - Rubicon Games
Everway
- Steve Jackson Games
Gurps
In Nomine - Task Force Games
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- TSR
IMO it was a sad day for RPGs when these where taken over by Wizards of the Coast
Let's see what getting swallowed by Hasbro does.
AD&D
D&D
Dragonlance
TSR Novels
(Gained Pokemon etc etc etc) - Tunnels and Trolls - Ken St. Andrews home page.
I loved this game myself. I still have the PC version on 5¼
Heck I still have a 5¼ drive on my 3Ghz P4 !
See also the Flying Buffalo list above.
Dedicated sites and others recommended (by Ken himself) include:
- Trollhalla - Please visit Trollhalla if you'd like to join the T&T Elite.
- Meet Gamers: Tunnels and Trolls
- Trollgod's New Digs
- T and T Wiki
- Gristlegrim dungeon. - Brilliant!
- Trymantis wiki
- TnT Mystic Corner
- Blue Tavern : Tunnels and Trolls has its own online club with Yahoo
- Eposic Animated Tunnels and Trolls Dice Roller
- Trollhalla - Please visit Trollhalla if you'd like to join the T&T Elite.
- Wizards of the Coast (Now owned by Hasbro)
Why on earth did they buy TSR then deliberately start burying it in Europe?
Politics and rivalry with the original directors, I heard. Phah!
(Now) AD&D etc etc
Magic the Gathering
- White Wolf
Vampire
Werewolf
Games software
- PCGen Website - Open source character generator
- ProFantasy
- Realm Overseer - 3D Fantasy RPG maps viewer
- RealmsCrafters - Software for Your Imagination
AD&D Core Rules CD's
I don't even know if you can still buy these any more, but if you like 2nd Edition AD&D they you really should hunt them down while you can.
AD&D Rules from Evermore
(Link broken September 2004)
Many of you will be aware of the AD&D Core Rules. This has been enhanced with the following…
- Core Rules CD-ROM v2.0 at £39.99 (most folk will have bought have this as v1.0 was a dog!)
DM tools, including treasure, monster, encounter, npc generators
Character generation and outstanding character sheets, exportable as HTML
9 key rule books including:-- Players Handbook & DM Guide
- Monstrous Manual
- Arms & Equipment Guide
- Tome of Magic
- Core Rules Expansion at £29.99(Link broken September 2004)
Needs Core Rules, Above
Adds 11 Handbooks
Allows 150 custom character kits - like Assassins
Adds the ability to export character sheets to .RTF text files.
Extra sets, interiors etc for the Map Maker program. The Complete Handbook of…- Bards
- Druids
- Dwarves
- Elves
- Fighters
- Gnomes & Halfings
- Paladins
- Priests
- Rangers
- Thieves
- Wizards
- Forgotten Realms Interactive Atlas at £39.99
- Compatible with the Core Rules program, allowing you to customize maps etc
- The world of Abeir-Toril laid out before you
- Explore countless realms, cities and dungeons
- Print any or even every area - foot by foot, mile my mile…
- Dragon Magazine Archive at £39.99
- Every article, image stat ever written for Dragon magazine from issues 1-250
- Fully searchable by year, issue, title, word, phrase or even "search near"
- User configurable display
- Put your favourite areas into folders with bookmarks.
- Dungeon Magazine Archive ?
As usual, the UK gets shafted with $1 = £1, but that's life!
My usual grumble aside, all of the above can had in the UK from:
The Gameskeeper
105 Cowley Road, Oxford, OX4 1HU
Tel: 01865 721 348 Fax: 0870 052 1683
It's a husband and wife team and they've been running some 18 odd years. I spoke to Carol and found her to be both pleasant and informed. Needless to say they have a most excellent selection of books, scenarios and games.
As an example of how professional they are, when I called back a few weeks later to follow up a quote, they had my details to hand from my enquiry. What more can I say…


