THE GREAT GM RESOURCE THREAD

>>48600278
If you can find a Gazetteer for any published campaign world, read it!

It is such a great tool for learning about the culture, history and attitudes of a world or region.

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GURPS.

Not even if I'm runnign it. GURPS splats are some of the best "how to GM THIS" books you will ever read. Ignore the rules and read the sidebars and the rest of the book, and you'll get more good advice on running a game than anything other than pure experience can give you.

>>48600333
Special honorary mention to GURPS Mysteries.

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I am gonna be that asshole that just posts a youtube link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TjGN-RaTro
Why?
Because the Thief soundtrack is one of the best I have ever used for D&D. The tracks helped me make the dungeons seem like actually creepy places and not just arenas to kill monsters.

>>48600333
This gay "recommend GURPS for everything" meme has really sunk pretty low at this point.

GURPS doesn't do anything right. It's like someone was specifically trying to make a game that systematically did everything wrong. The only way to use it is try and ignore it as much as possible, which makes it like some sort of gay freeform until a rules dispute makes you pull up some of the most garbled and senseless text vomit that anyone has yet tried to call rulebooks.

I get the whole "it's /tg/'s Boku no Pico" joke, but the difference is that with Boku no Pico you immediately understand that it isn't what you were looking for, but with GURPS you have to waste some time reading or god forbid playing that awful system before you realize you've been tricked into playing crystallized crap.

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>>48600546

But can you suggest anything better?

>>48600546
If anything on this board has sunken low it's the whole "Anything I don't like is a meme" thing.

>>48600572
>gurpsfag is also the guy forcing the "playing gurps can fix your non-system-related problems!" meme

What a surprise.

>>48600597
No one in this thread has told anyone to play GURPS.

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So, have you ever wondered "Wait shit how did these things actually work during medieval times" during campaign prep? There is a solution (1/2)

>>48600546
>I'm going to completely ignore the part that says 'use these as reference books and guides to GMing rather than play ing GURPS" and complain about something entirely irrelevant to the statements you made.

Maybe you should actually read what was written instead of spouting memetic nonsense?

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>>48600637
(2/2)

>>48600640
You're implying that advice isn't presented a hundred times better in a hundred other books.

GURPS does a great job at living up to its name. It's advice is generic to the point of being banal, and worth far less than the effort of reading it.

>>48600769
Wow, you know of better resources? Why don't you post them?

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Saw this link in one of these style threads

http://www.d20pfsrd.com/

It's got everything you'd ever need, and you can convert most anything listed into D&D 3.5 easily.

>>48600855
For a more OSR SRD, check out http://www.d20swsrd.com/
And for advice, ideas, and house rules, there's https://campaignwiki.org/wiki/LinksToWisdom/HomePage

>>48600637
>>48600651
Looks good, thanks

>>48600278
http://tabletopaudio.com/ is also pretty good too.

>>48600278

Pretty gud. Thanks.

http://www.20000-names.com/index.htm

This is an interesting little thing. It list hundreds of names from many cultures
With their meanings.
It's nothing scientific or anything, but I used it in Fading Suns (imagine a more multicultural Dune sort of thing) and it was really handy.

>>48600546
>Says something is bad and does things wrong
>Doesn't say why it's bad or what specifically it does wrong

Opinion discarded, try again.

>>48601622
This is pretty great, gonna use this in the future both as player and GM.

>>48600769
It really, really isn't.

>>48600769
You're fucking retarded. I hate GURPS as much as the next guy, but it has a ton of info on accurate worldbuilding, if you care about that. You don't like people recommending it everywhere doesn't mean it does everything wrong, you massive autist.

>>48602104
>but it has a ton of info on accurate worldbuilding

But even more innaccurate bullslop, making any attempt to use it a chore.

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donjon.bin.sh is one of the best random-generator resources for millions of things. All editions of D&D plus some OSR retroclones too.

>>48602136
Your meme is old, tired and wrong. Just give up and go bother the editionwar fags.

Does anyone have a resource for creating magical artifacts? I need to randomly generate a few chaos relics for some tests of faith in my only war campaign.

>>48605908
see >>48605513

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All I've got is this screen cap.

Anyone have that pdf about economics? It talked about costs to farm and make bread.

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>>48609288
>>48607874
or this?

>>48609288
This one. Thank you for both.