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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
    
    
  
  
  
• 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…