Tabletop Creator Toolbox
A list of resources, tools, and assets for tabletop role-playing and board game design and publising
Guides
Graphic Design & Layout
- Coding Character Sheets is a collection of resources to use web technologies in presenting and distributing games. (Paul Stefko)
- How to Layout Indie Zines and Tabletop RPGs -- Beginner's Guide an introduction to the basics of game layout using Adobe InDesign. (A Couple of Drakes Design Studio)
Publishing
Marketing
Crowdfunding
Art & Photography
- Library of Congress "Free to Use and Reuse Sets" is out of copyright work, grouped into 73 themes. No search capability. Perhaps about 1,400 images. (United States Library of Congress)
Software
Licenses
System Reference Documents
TO SORT
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Pixabay is a searchable collection of images under a liberal license that includes commercial use. (Pixabay)
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NYPL Digital Collections "Explore 930,886 items digitized from The New York Public Library's collections."
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Fortepan Someone from the reading club uses this site through Google Translate
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Kunstmuseum Basel - Sammlung Online - Künstler*in | Highlight Old art
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Art of Urs Graf, 1495-1527/1528 Full resolution download link in top corner
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Biodiversity Heritage Library’s albums 150,000 illustrations of the natural world
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Yes, I did drop 90GB of my work to Public Domain "Stephane Wootha Richard is leaving the industry dropping 90 GB of his work to Public Domain...." internet Archive mirror: https://archive.org/details/Wootha_Public_Domain/Reference%20Packs/Rennaissance%20Castle/ContactSheet.jpg?s=09
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Artvee "Discover Classical Art. Browse and download high-resolution, public domain artworks."
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U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Pomological Watercolor Collection "The USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection documents fruit and nut varieties developed by growers or introduced by USDA plant explorers around the turn of the 20th century. Technically accurate paintings were used to create lithographs illustrating USDA bulletins, yearbooks, and other series distributed to growers and gardeners across America."
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Smithsonian Open Access 2M+ images
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Unsplash "Beautiful Free Images & Pictures"
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Game-icons "3768 free SVG and PNG icons for your games or apps"
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Noun Project Free line art icons
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Open Peeps, Hand-Drawn Illustration Library Mix-and-match character parts
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Open Doodles Sketchy clip art
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spark-joy stock illustrations, tools and techniques for css, html, more
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The online collections of the museums of the City of Paris 300,000+ pieces of art from Parisian museums, much (all?) out of copyright.
Contributing
Anyone is welcome to contribute by creating an issue or pull request to this repo. Alternate methods for those without a GitHub account will be made available soon.
Guidlines for links:
- The whole list, including the category list and these guidelines, is open to contributions and suggestions
- The focus of the list is on resources for the creation and publishing of tabletop games. Contributions of resources for players to run and create content for their game sessions will be (politely) turned down. This is an understandably a gray area, but the bias is to not include links of this kind. Links only relevant for video game production will not be accepted
- Suggested links should include a title, a URL, a short (one line) description, and a suggested category. If possible, include the name and link to the author(s) of the resource as well
- URLs should be direct links to the site, article, etc. Please no page redirects, affiliate links, URL shorteners, etc. Any non-necessary URL parameters (such as campaign or tracking params) should be removed. URLs that require a log-in to reach will not be accepted