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Welcome to the RPGnet gamer's encyclopedia. This is a set of definitive links to accurate source material for scenarios, worlds, and sourcebooks. Rather than present 10 million links that you can never sort through, we've focused on the one (or two) most definitive sites for each topic, i.e. that person who keeps the most useful references. Some of these topics are direct links, and some are indices, but all are designed to get to you distilled information in as few clicks as possible. Enjoy! Comments and suggestions for new sections gleefully accepted by Sandy (sandy@clark.net). Eternally a work in progress.

Everything can be found at either the academically arranged Basalt Regional library or the overflowing WWW Virtual library.

Overview of the modern age

  • Ancient History: Artifacts by region, Ancient Greece, and the language Linear B
  • Arts and Music (including historical aspects)
  • Combat and Military Studies
  • Costuming, Online Costuming, Masks and Makeup and native crafts and supplies
  • the Fantasy page
  • Foreign Languages
  • Future Shock, Apocalypse theories, and Cyberpunk
  • Game Theory
  • Geography
  • History and more History
  • International Culture (current and past) Multi-cultural calendar New!
  • Intelligence Agencies: IRP (NSA/CIA/DIA/NRO manuals and details)
  • Literature
  • Magic:
  • Medicine: past, present, and future
  • Modern times
  • Mysterious Places
  • Mythology overview and a good database plus Ancient Myths and Legends
  • Arthurian refs
  • The Mythos
  • Names (namely, Kate Monk's Onomastikon) New!
  • Patents (for history or reference)
  • Politics
  • Censored News stories
  • Runes
  • Society (Harper's Index) and the US Gazetteer (Census)
  • Sociological history: Women quotes and General quotes
  • Prison Lingo
  • Storytelling, Urban Legends, and a folktales archive
  • Science past and present, Space science, Mad Science, and Wrong science Also Forensic Entomology New!
  • Special Collections, including rare and occult books
  • Theology (and Philosophy)
  • Weirdness Meta-index

    The RPG Hound is also building a very nice site of essays and resources. Tesarta have made a similar creation, and their list of resources is extremely good.

    The Research-It meta-tool is a great language/history/stat finder for writers.

    Mindbench is a new forum collecting ideas.

    The Gamemaster's Bookshelf is a good summary of real-world books for gamemasters building their library.

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