Links for Roleplayers

Profile and planning tools

• Carrd: A simple one-page site builder for creating a shareable profile or hub for character sheets, roleplay preferences, links, and other reference material.
• pronouns.cc: A shareable profile for names, pronouns, and related terms, with support for organizing more than one list. It can make a writer's preferences easy to find before a roleplay begins.
• Straw.Page: A mobile-friendly, drag-and-drop website builder for making personal pages, blogs, or playful character and roleplay hubs.
• Google Docs: Browser-based documents for drafting and organizing character sheets, lore, outlines, and scenes. Documents can also be shared for viewing, commenting, or collaborative editing.

Image resources

• Pepper Mint Stranger: Face Claims: A searchable face-claim directory with filters for gender, birth year, ethnicity, hair and eye color, and other features. Use it to browse visual references for characters.
• Inkarnate: An online map-making tool with drawing and shape tools, textures, stamps, high-resolution exports, and a library of ready-made maps and assets for customization.
• The Art of Magic: the Gathering: An archive of Magic: The Gathering illustrations organized by set and artist, offering a large collection of polished fantasy art for visual reference. The site notes that the artwork belongs to its artists or Wizards of the Coast, so check the rights before reusing an image.

Writing resources

• Fantasy Name Generators: A large collection of generators for character names, places, species, cultures, organizations, creatures, and many other categories. It is useful when you need a starting point or want names that fit a particular setting.
• Book Tropes by Genre: A genre-organized guide to familiar story patterns, with explanations of the kinds of expectations those patterns create and ways writers can use or vary them.
• Plot Devices: A reference for story tools that move a plot forward, create urgency or conflict, reveal information, or connect one part of a story to the next. It can help when a character or scene needs a new direction.