Channel Spotlight: Crackle.com

With movies and TV shows organized by genre, and a rotating selection to choose from, it's easy to find something you might enjoy no matter what kind of geek you are. Sci-fi, action, horror, anime and more! Crackle should be one of your first places to look when you want something fun and free to fill your evening!

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RPG Town/City Generators

If you're a GM who doesn't want to fork out cash for campaign books but needs some help working out the nitty gritty details of world-building, these are some great free tools for your fantasy RPG campaign! Combine them with some home/fan-brewed stats and a wikia of your favorite existing fictional world(Elder Scrolls/Dragon Age/Diablo, etc) and a ton of your work is done for you, for free!


Town Generation Tool(Website)

More accurately, a town population tool. Just feed this online tool some info about the town you want to populate. Choose from options including size, military level, setting, alignment, economy, and political type. Then with one click your town is populated with numerous types of characters of appropriate levels, stats and abilities, each with their own name! Populate courtyards, taverns and merchant districts instantly!

City Map Generator(Website)

This downloadable gadget allows you to instantly create town maps after feeding it some basic information (population, setting, etc). Very cool for those who suck at drawing maps!

Free Tabletop RPG Website

1,000 Monkeys, 1,000 Typewriters

This site has TONS of RPGs to check out, and also has a submission process to promote some quality control. If you don't mind using a rulebook on a digital device instead of print, you could be looking at a goldmine of indy tabletop gaming!

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Swords And Wizardry Tabletop RPG

Swords And Wizardry is another free version of classic Dungeons And Dragons Rules, although streamlined even more for those who want a faster pace, less rules-intensive fantasy RPG experience. And unlike OSRIC, this book comes with great art with that rough, classic vibe!

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OSRIC- Like Getting Old-School "Dungeons and Dragons"... For Free!

OSRIC stands for "Old School Reference And Index Compilation" and is essentially a free version of the classic Dungeons And Dragons rules! Whether you regret selling all those old rulebooks or want to try classic D&D for the first time, OSRIC has everything you need!

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Dwarfstar Board Games

This company went off the map a number of years ago but those in charge of the properties have given permission for these games to be downloaded and enjoyed for free! They all have some kind of sci-fi/fantas

Although these will sometimes require some printing and possibly cutting/pasting, the games themselves are free!

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Star Trek Online

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With solid space combat and plenty to enjoy even for non-MMO fans, fans of sci-fi should check this one out, and for fans of Star Trek it's a no-brainer to give this a try!

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