Treasure RPG Links

RPG Links

We've used loads of sites while designing and playing Treasure. These links go to sites that can add to or help with playing Treasure. Please Contact us if you'd like to see your own site added to the list - or removed.

Art

Free artwork for illustrating Treasure and your own adventurers and campaigns:

Art Passions maintains a large selection of fantasy art from the Golden Age of Illustration, which can be used as page or chapter covers, illustrations within the 'rule's or within players' designs
The Comic Art Collective is an artists' community full of professional images of comic book heros
Conceptart.org is a great source of ideas and images
Wikimedia Commons is packed with plenty of free SVG vector images, including heraldic art
The Open Clipart Project has lots of free SVG vector images that can be used as a starting point for players' designs

Colours

Help with choosing colour schemes for designs and maps:

Color Cop is a colour picker that makes it easy to identify colours on screen
Adobe Kuler offers a wide range of ready made colour palettes
Colour Lovers has a wide selection of ready made colour palettes

CSS

Cascading Style Sheets offer an easy way to change fonts, position images, alter backgrounds and 'style' web pages, including Treasure:

csscreator hosts a specialists' forum that can help with most CSS-related problems
Open Source Web Design has a library of 2000+ free, CSS-based web design layouts
W3C Schools is the starting point for learning CSS and xhtml. We should spend more time there

Design

These sites may be helpful when making designs or laying out pages:

Renesis is developing a standalone Scaleable Vector Graphics (SVG) suite that includes a plug-in for displaying SVG images and animations in Internet Explorer. SVG files offer numerous benefits over raster images and the quicker they become more widely used the better
Typechart displays web typography and lets you grab the CSS. Needs an update to include the 'C' fonts
Vector Magic is, perhaps, the best tracing software available. Unfortunately, the desktop version is quite expensive. The online service is a pay-as-you-go system, which gives good results

RPG Blogs

Blogs we like:

The Free RPG Blog is a showcase for free RPG systems
Thistle Games offers an 'all things' RPG blog with weekly posts on RPGs, videogame RPGs and RPG advocacy
Please send us your links/ recommendations

RPG Forums

Forums packed full of RPG knowledge:

enworld has RPG forums covering a wide choice of RPGs and RPG topics
rpgbomb offers a social networking forum for RPG players
ukroleplayers provides an RPG forum for UK players

RPG Resources

Links on RPG advocacy, RPG news and sources of RPG materials:

Gamelab publishes articles and research about RPGs
Gaming Report is a leading RPG news site
The Library Gaming Toolkit published by American Library Association's offers plenty of help on setting up RPG groups and promoting RPGs

Software

Software that is very useful to RPG players and designers. Most of it completely free to download:

Adobe Acrobat Reader can often help with your graphics workflow
CamStudio's free video streaming software is the next step in webcasting after Wink
Gimp is a very effective, free alternative to Photoshop
Inkscape is an extremely worthwhile, SVG based, free alternative to CorelDraw and Illustrator
Nvu provides a basic but effective web editor
OpenOffice acts as a free alternative to MS Office
Photoshop Express gives direct access to a cut down, online version of Photoshop
Sumopaint provides an excellent online, Photoshop-like painting application
Wink is a free screen recorder/ tutorial and presentation builder