Over the course of our show, we’ve highlighted several tools that can be great additions for your Adventurer’s Packs!
- 2 Minute Tabletop: A tool for prepping maps at the very last minute
- 5e Character Book: A great binding for 5e character sheets to help keep all your notes together
- 5e Monster Manual on a Business Card: wallet-sized cheat sheet for random encounters
- 5e Weak Magic Items: magic items for when you don’t want your players to get too OP
- 5-Room Dungeon Generator: quick rollable dungeon creator from Shieldice Studios
- 5th Edition Spellbook: An app for Android that helps you keep all your spellcasting characters straight
- Abulufia Random Generator: Generate all the random! Generate interesting random names, treasure, plots, and anything else you need
- Adventure Away: a B&B vacation get-away for D&D adventuring
- Adventure Dice: if you ever thought your dice needed more bisexual ice-cream, then this is the dice-maker for you
- Adventure Lookup: Brain-child of Matt Colville, search for adventures by a tonne of options such as featured monsters, magic items, edition, location, setting…
- Alchemy RPG: An immersive, cinematic take on the Virtual Table Top oozing with presentation
- ANAMap: see DeepKnight’s RPG Map 2 below
- Any Dice: if you’re a level 2 rogue with 17 Dex using a rapier with sneak attack, these graphs tell you you’re most likely to do damage in the 13 to 18 range. Magical. Mathical. Mathemagical.
- Arcane Goods: leather journal and quality table top accessories
- ArcKnight: flat plastic minis that look great at your table
- Arkenforge: An immersive, in-person Virtual Table Top
- Artisan Dice: Celtic themed dice made from … ancient bog oak, yup
- Atlas Worlds campaign management and more
- AutoRoll Tables: a collection of automatic randomness for DMs
- Baby Bestiary: raising animals in various game systems, oh and Art!
- Battle Bards: actual music for your games
- Battlemaps: View images from a given subreddit using the incantation:
https://imgur.com/r/[subreddit] - Beastheart & Monstrous Companions: framework for having wild creatures as companions (not pets)
- Before the Storm: a choose-your-own-adventure…um…adventure for new players (see also: D&D Beyond)
- Beneos Battlemaps and Tokens: animated goodies for your digital games
- Blood Queen’s Defiance: replayable “DM-less” adventure
- Braille Dice by DOTS RPG Project: nerd clacks for the visually impaired, woot!
- Caeora: fantasy cartographer with colorful, saturated hand-drawn style
- Chaotic Shiny: Online everything-generators and game supplements
- ChatGPT: An experimental conversational AI that can be used for many different thought experiments, including helping you build your TTRPG campaign. Oh, and it’s totally not Skynet. It promises.
- Class Character Sheets: Character sheets that are reorganized and enhanced from the standard character sheets
- Complete List of (5e) Tools and How to Use Them: tips and tricks on how to use all those took kits you have proficiency in that you totally forgot you have
- Confessions of a Part Time Sorceress: A (girly-)girl’s guide to Dungeons and Dragons
- Conflict Games: card decks to improve your storytelling
- Conjured Woodworks: unique handmade wooden trays for dice rolling
- Cool Stuff Inc. an FLGS for when you don’t have an FLGS
- Critical Dice: 6d12 set of extra critical hit effects
- Critical Hit/Fail Decks: ways to make crits more interesting
- Critical Hits and Critical Fumbles: to spice up combat. Made for Pathfinder, but great for D&D, too!
- CritterDB: a statblock builder for an index of homebrew baddies.
- Crow and Crown: affordable journals for use as character sheets, maps and adventure recording
- Cze and Peku Maps: beautiful maps for every season
- D&D Beyond: The official 5th edition Dungeons and Dragons digital toolset (see also: Before the Storm)
- D&D In A Castle: because your parent’s basement won’t suffice forever
- D&D Speak: generators with some generators added in
- D&D Spells: A web-based index of all spells in D&D, filterable by level, school, class, source book, etc.
- Deck of Many Wonders: magic items to enhance your role play
- DeepNight’s RPG Map 2: keep your maps clean and simple with this free, handy map editor
- Demiplane: online game communication platform: video, voice, notes and more
- Deven Rue Maps: hand drawn maps (and other goodies) from the Mistress of Maps herself
- Devin’s Token Site: character tokens by artist Devin Night, various costs
- Dice Coins: Coins that you spin like tops to determine the number “rolled”
- Dice Dungeons: dice, (Quest) decks, condition coins, metal dice, and monster tokens – and dice!
- Dice Envy: small company offering original dice and a monthly subscription option
- Dice of Rolling: One-stop shop for well-made dice and some great tokens to keep track of your tabletop session
- Dice to Distribution: A tool that introduces a concept called “The Killable Zone.” Complete with all the maths!
- DM Heroes: a somewhat simple, limited character generator
- DnD 5e SRD: The basic, fundamental rules without all the messiness of copyrights
- Dngngen Dungeon Generator: quick generator for dungeons
- Dogmight Gaming: Carved wooden accessories, DM Screens, and more!
- DonJon: More generators than you can shake a stick at
- Draconomicon 5e: A guide to Brown, Gray, and Purple dragons, much to Ryu’s delight
- Dragon Trappers Lodge: unique minis (and dragons!)
- DScryb: places, monsters and spells by industry veterans
- Dungeon Alchemist: an AI map generation tool
- Dungeon Craft: reversible map pieces and minis
- Dungeon in a Box: monthly multitiered all-in-one adventure box
- Dungeon Magazine & Dragon Magazine: A great 4e resource for adventures, rules, and other tidbits to add flavor to your 4e game.
- Dungeon Master Tools: A site with every generator under the sun, and then some! Generate weather, local communities, families, and more.
- Dungeon Master’s Guide 2 (4e): DM advice: less system, more how it works
- Dungeon Painter Studio: layered image editor tailored for RPG map making
- Dungeon Scrawl: beta mapping tool with hatching, freehand paths and many goodies
- Dungeons & Lasers: Good looking, and relatively cheap, 3D terrain for increased player immersion
- Dyson Logos: Lennon’s favorite cartographer!
- Eigengrau’s Generator: persistent full town generator
- Ekphrastic Beasts: visually unique monsters for your tables, by Blazing Worlds
- Elderwood Academy: wooden dice boxes, towers and rolling trays – and dice
- Encounters+: An iOS only initiative tracker and monster stat block tool
- Epic Encounters: all you need for a deadly encounter for an any level, all in one box (even minis!), by SteamForged Games
- Epic GM: A comprehensive, all-in-one tool to make DMing easier. Includes drag ‘n’ drop map tracking, initiative tracker, custom monsters, and more!
- Fantasia Archive: free world building with active development
- Fantastic Lairs: so many lairs, with integration hooks and difficulty suggestions
- Fantasy Calendar: create a full calendar for your game world
- Fantasy Name Generators – a convenient collection of name generators and writing tools (see also: Roll For Fantasy)
- Fast Character: A character generation tool for when you need a character quicker than you can say “so what level should I make the Paladin?”
- Fat Dragon Games: 3D printable terrain, minis, customizable screen, paper terrain
- Fifth Edition Character Sheet: A neat character sheet app for iOS and Android
- Forged Gaming: Display cases for your clicky-clacky-math-rocks (and other cool things too)
- Flowscape: Mapping in three dimensions
- Gabriel Pickard (aka MadCowChef): free map tiles, and some that are not free
- Game Toppers LLC: An assortment of toppers for your table, and noticeably cheaper than a regular gaming table!
- GamerMats: Custom-printed gaming mats for your tabletop sessions. Print maps, artwork, and more!
- Games Workshop: Home of fantastic, highly detailed minis for other universes that can crossover into yours
- Gatekeeper Games: dice, minis, and more
- GeekOn! boxes, dice towers & bags, bands … your mundane bag of holding shop
- Geek Therapeutics: Integrating geek culture into therapeutic practice
- Glumdark: grim, horror-themed encounter tables
- GM Binder: homebrew and campaign management all in one
- Goblin.Tools: AI text generator to
take overup your game - Goodman Games: TTRPG brand with some D&D 5e content
- Gozzy’s Map Generator: Need something for a dungeon, cave or wilderness? Look no further!
- Grit & Glory: over 100 pages of optional rules for D&D 5e to enhance realism
- Hardcodex.ru: A great resource to find printable cards for all the DnD books! *NOTE* Be sure to own the books first!
- Here Be Taverns: factions, towns, encounters, taverns (surprised?), characters, items, monsters and more
- Hero Book/Hero Book GM mixed resource and condensed rules by Material Components
- Hero Forge: Custom-created miniatures. Very customised. The most customised minis you’ll ever make.
- Hero Kids: easy RPG for kids, inexpensive
- Hitpoint Press (previously The Deck of Many): A great resource for cards, dice, and other accessories to help manage all those little things during your sessions!
- Hobbyte: A really neat isometric dungeon builder. With dragons!
- Homebrewery: make all your homebrew material look like it came straight from those coastal wizards
- IDEA (International Dialects of English Archive): when you need help perfecting that accent for your totally not Scottish dwarf NPC
- Ink & Claw: unique, colorful character sheets
- Inkarnate: Create professional regional maps with ease
- Inkwell Ideas: maps, dice
- Iron Archer Gamecraft: pretty and portable dice trays
- JetPack7: 5e supplements, backer influenced, PDF and print options
- Kassoon: generators, maps, map generators and more!
- KenkuFM: tabletop audio sharing for Discord
- Krema Designs: quality, handmade, and customizable game tables
- Kobold Fight Club: Quick and easy encounter builder
- Kobold Press: official unofficial 5e supplements
- Kraken Dice: mostly 12pc and 14pc sets, tokens and counters, and Dice Market
- Lady DM: handmade and custom dice
- Legendary Adventures: 5e guide for epic characters and encounters
- Level Up: raised tabletop game space
- Level Up Dice: unique dice and dice accessories
- Litko: fun all around gaming shop, but we especially love the token mounts so your minis no longer have to hoof it
- Little Cluus: handmade dice with fun inclusions [DEAD]
- Limitless Adventures: story feeds to help your campaign go on and on and on and on and on and…
- Loke Battlemats: mix and match battlemat books
- Lost Atlas: battlemap search engine featuring your favourite cartographers
- Magic Set Editor: made for Magic: The Gathering, but useful for making magic items for your players, too!
- Magimundi Bestiary: for 5e and Pathfinder
- Magwa’s Magic Item Compendium: Magic item generator
- Maps of Mastery: dungeon and setting maps
- Market Fluctuator and other Homebrew Tools from MarcinOn Presents
- Martial Exploits: lots of good 4e stuff converted to 5e
- Melee Mats: BIG dry erase mats for your meatspace games
- Merlin’s Dices: even moreunique handmade and custom dice
- Metallic Monsters: super detailed bronze minis, also on etsy
- Mice and Mystics: not D&D, but cool minis and role play initiation for new and younger players. And a fun board game, too
- Michael Ghelfi Studios: fantasy music radio
- MiniPaints (iOS, Android): an app for finding, matching and buying paints
- Monster Inc: amazing buildable modular adventure terrain
- Morlin’s Minis: 3D printed minis from Warlock Workshop
- Myriad Tabletop: tabletop accessories and revisted Bag of Tricks
- MythicMakings: hand crafted (and portable!) wooden dice and mini storage
- Mythroll Armory: heavy “dice” spinners, foldable d20
- Nerd Wood Designs: wooden TTRPG accessories
- Neverwinter Origins: a choose-your-own adventure introducing D&D concepts, from D&D Beyond
- Noisy Person Cards: A fun game to practice your NPC voices
- Not Another Tavern Generator: Totally another tavern generator (and more)
- OMGM so many generators, customizable with PDF download
- Once Upon a Time: A collaborative story-telling card game.
- One Page Dungeon: An annual contest to create the smallest, biggest adventures
- OneNote: A great digital ringbinder tool from Microsoft to help you organise your DM notes with quick clipping and wiki-style syntax
- OpenForge: A great resource for free 3d model files
- Owlbear Rodeo really simple virtual tabletop (check out v2.0 here!)
- Papercraft Dungeon: Print and fold your own minis, terrain, and more!
- Quest Decks: (See Dice Dungeons above)
- PlayRole: Zoom, but for TTRPGs
- Reaper Minis: Fantastic minis site with some excellent, cost-effective options
- RedBerryCrafts UK: A great place to buy some fantastically designed tokens to help with your tabletop sessions!
- Reroll: pixel art characters for your remote games
- RNW Equipment Packs: A papercraft-y way to keep track of all the items in your various packs (priest’s pack, explorer’s pack, etc)
- Role 4 Initiative: map tiles, clings, minis and dice. Also dice by the pound.
- Roll20: A customizable virtual tabletop
- RollAdvantage: A great tool to help with token creation and dice rolling
- Roll For Fantasy – a convenient collection of name generators and writing tools (see also: Fantasy Name Generators)
- RPG Architect: Make various maps and dungeons using this handy app to help spur your imagination
- RPG Market Generator: A nice generator that makes shops in the town (blacksmith, magic shop, alchemist etc.) along with stock and proprietors, and also notable NPCs (such as a mayor) [DEAD]
- RPG Tinker: a simple NPC generator with “monster stat blocks”
- RUBrand: unique home-assemble accessories [DEAD]
- Sane Magical Prices: magic items priced for your 5e campaign
- Satine’s Quest: an actual luxury gaming cruise featuring multiple connected adventures
- Scrying Stones: dungeon, character, and quest-generating dice
- Seventh Sanctum: More generators for just about every subject you can imagine (non-existant colours, anyone?), but names only. Great for world-building
- Showcase Terrain: Cool accessories for all your tabletop needs! [DEAD]
- Simple 5e Microsoft Word Template: homebrew supplements look great with this easy template for Microsoft Word
- Sly Flourish’s The Lazy DM: A great book on how to reduce prep time and still run awesome, engaging sessions
- Space Kids: teamwork, adventure and value for the newest players of TTRPGs
- Spearhead Crafts: clever wooden and plexiglass novelty tabletop aids (and coasters!)
- Spectacular Settlements: “builder” pages, pregens, NPC tables and more
- Stibbles’ Codex of Companions: pets, stat blocks, bonding, monster duels and a card deck? Wow
- Syrinscape: A fantastic audio tool that adds a great deal of ambiance to any DnD game!
- Tabletop Audio: A fantastic site with ambient music and sounds. Ryu’s favorite is Here Be Dragons.
- Tabletop Things: laser cut goodies, boats, laser things, tiles and terrain, and more laser bits – did I mention lasers?
- Tarroka Deck: Official “Tarot” deck for Curse of Strahd, but it has other cool uses, too!
- The Bodhana Group: improve social skills and expressions by combining table top games and therapy
- The Combat Company: minis, mini painting tools, mini creation and conversion tools. Minis! Oh, and some other gaming aids. Also minis.
- The Dice Dungeon: dice (duh) but they’re edible! Also tea, for spilling! And other table top stuff, too!
- The Dice Shop Online: lots of dice and kittens (so many dice)
- The DM’s Treasure Trove: Custom dice towers and trays on Etsy, view on Instagram
- The Dungeon Master Experience: PDF & Article (search for “Iomandra”) [DEAD]
- The Grim and Deliberate Beast: combat complexity rethought
- The Loot Shop: magic item generator along with their profiles, lore, and artwork
- The Thieves Guild: amazing collection of generators that pulls from 3rd party resources, neatly presented
- The Shop of Many Things: pens, atmospherics and dice
- The Ultimate RPG Character Backstory Guide: Prompts and ideas for giving your character depth
- Thrill Studio: miniatures, detailed models (painted and not) and more [DEAD]
- Tiled Map Editor: lightweight and … mappy? … though not specifically for TTRPG maps
- Titan Craft Minis: custom miniature creator with a somewhat limited variety
- Total Party Kill Handbook Volume One and Volume Two: excellent encounters scalable by level, tactics, and lethality.
- Traders and Merchants: rules and reference tables for exhaustive shop inventories
- Trash Mob Minis: Colorful, cartoony paper minis for DMs and players looking for a different feel to standard minis
- Ultimate Game Table: Tables, toppers, play mats, accessories and branded merch.
- Ultrapro Character Folio: A great tool to help keep all of your notes and character sheets organized
- Warlock Gaming Tiles: terrain from WizKidz
- Watabou Generators: Need a quick town, district, mansion, or world map? These generators can do it!
- Wizardawn: Generate a random cavernous dungeon map based off of geomorphs by a number of different authors
- Wonderdraft: intuitive map maker, rugged coast lines, great community … anyway, here’s Wonderdraft
- World Anvil: A very detailed, wiki-like method of organizing all of your world-building notes
- XMind: Mindmapping software that’s incredibly easy to use, and great for session prep!
- Zombicide – Black Plague: not D&D, but a great box of minis! And a cool board game, too, I guess
Is there something that’s an absolute must-have at your tables? Found a cool app, book or other item that you’d like to share with other adventurers and dungeon masters? Let us know about it by emailing sendingstone@heroesrisepodcast.com.