Links

This may have once been called a “web directory.” What follows is a set of links to pages around the web that I find interesting.

Design

• Butterick’s Practical Typography - a definitive guide to typography

Fonts

• Fantasque Sans - my current coding font family
• Fira Code
• Iosevka

Food and Drink

• Supercook - a website that recommends recipes based on your ingredients
• Webtender - a mixology site, including a cool feature that gives you recipes based on what you have in your bar

Procedural Generation

• Algorithms for Procedural Content Generation - a bunch of algorithms
• Here Dragons Abound - a blog by a procedural map generator creator
• Red Blob Games - tutorials and interactive lessons on procedural generation, especially for games

Tabletop Role-Playing Games

• Forbidden Lands
• Shadow of the Demon Lord - a really dark fantasy RPG
• Uncharted Worlds - a freeform space opera RPG

World Creation

• Tabletop Role-Playing Game Generators - a link directory for generator tools for RPGs
• Iron Arachne - this is my own site devoted to such things!
• & Magazine map generation tools
• Chaotic Shiny - a TON of tools, many of which covers areas the others don’t (e.g., culture generator)
• d20 SRD World Generator
• Dave’s Mapper
• donjon - a wide variety of tools
• Fantasy Name Generators (also check out the Planet Description Generator on the same site)
• Hexographer - a hex-based map tool
• Last Gasp Generators
• Planet Designer - calculate realistic stats for a planet
• Procedural Name Generator
• Seventh Sanctum
• Springhole Worldbuilding Generators
• WorldMaster - one of the (maybe THE) first programmatic generators out there