Help! Sources of *good* material

[Y.O.Morales]

To the Enworlders:

I'm planning to start a new campaign on January. The thing is I haven't DMed since two whole years, and when I did, I used to keep track of free material on the 'net: maps, tiles, adventures, etc.

But two years have passed, and though I've been lurking here and there, I'm not aware right now of what good things are available for free. My campaign will be home-brew, no deities, no standard races, and with an altered system (lots of house rules!). So I'll be more than happy if some of you enlightened me about free game material that you think is of the best quality, no matter if they come from these boards or as freebies from a company/designer.

While we're on the topic, I'd like to know which PDFs are worth the time (three choices will be enough, please)

Thanks for reading this and for any help you post.

 

[Y.O.Morales]

Update:

I've downloaded some cool tiles from SkeletonKeyGames, and I may buy some of their products. Also browsed ENworld's download page and found the 100 Fantasy Locations to be useful. Thanks EN community.

 

[Campbell]

The Waking Lands: Website of EN World's own Son of a Preacherman. There are some nice variants of the core classes here, as well as some solid prestige classes, and feats. The real gem of the site is his variant combat system.

Upper Krust's CR/EL System: Pure delight. Do yourself a favor, and grab it.

 

[zagorm]

try www.theforge.pl for fully illustrated locations like: church, blacksmith, inn, and more (whole village for example) - over 100 arts

All these modules (available in free pdfs section) consist of plans, perspective sketches, descriptions and adventure hooks.

regards
Z

 

[Hand of Evil]

Try the DM Advice Thread, a classic.

http://enworld.cyberstreet.com/showthread.php?threadid=47525

Also on the pull down "EN World" menu you have Links you may want to check out.

 

[Mark]

RPGNow.com FREE STUFF - http://www.rpgnow.com/default.php?cPath=268

 

[Y.O.Morales]

Upper Krust's CR/EL System: Pure delight. Do yourself a favor, and grab it.

Well, I did myself a favor and grabbed it, but that CR/EL System seems like a lot of hassle for just guessing better a creature's CR.

However, thanks for the Waking Lands link. I've been trying for months and months to find the guy (SoaPman) who did the Ranger variant years ago on the WoTC forums. Thanks again.

 

[Y.O.Morales]

Nice stuff at the Forge.

By the way, anybody remember the Encounter Scenarios Contest that was held somewhere (I think it was here on ENWorld) about three years ago. I was looking at my old RPG files and found the winning entries of "Put to the Sword" and 'Hunt of the Black Hound' too. Nice stuff, but I can't find the other entries anywhere.



(Excuse me for asking for such old stuff. I'll put a rest to this thread now)

 

[Mythmere1]

Might also take a look at the Master DM Contest results on WotC's "What's a DM to Do" board.

 

[DungeonmasterCal]

This site has some really great stuff. Lots of very "flavorful" spells and items.
http://www.sulerin.com/

www.wakinglands.com is a terrific site.

www.wizards.com/dnd has lots of free adventures and adventure hooks, archived spells and monsters,

Same at www.montecook.com

For low priced .pdf's that are truly good work, go to http://www.roninarts.com/ (also known as http://www.philipjreed.com/).

The Creature Catalog link here on ENWorld is a great place for critters, too.