Digital Archiving
Personal Archives
- Library of Congress: Personal Archiving
LoC's guide to personal archives, including Digital Photographs, Digital Audio, Digital Video, EMail, Personal Digital Records and Websites
An individual can't maintain an archive, because archives are about ensuring material outlive us. It requires collaboration and institutions -- archives require community! That said, we can still go beyond personal archives take archival action.
Web Archiving
- Internet Archive The largest web archive. You can upload material directly!
- DownThemAll
Extension to allow you to download all of the images on a page - HTTrack Website Copier
Allows you to download a World Wide Web site from the Internet to a local directory, building recursively all directories, getting HTML, images, and other files from the server to your computer.
Audio Preservation
- Digital Preservation Coalition guide for Preserving Audio
A brief academic-style guide on the nuts and bolts of preserving audio. Includes information on formats, documentation, compression and more!
Interactive Fiction
Interactive Fiction games I love
Make your own
TTRPG
Introduction to TTRPG
- Introduction to TTRPGs, Roll20 article
- How to get into TTRPG, YouTube video
Safety tools
- Monte Cook’s Consent in Game (includes the most popular RPG consent checklist form)
- Deck of Player Safety (buy the deck or digital version)
- TTRPG safety toolkit
- Script Change
How to run a game
- Matt Colville YouTuber series
- The Monsters Know, blog with books by the author you can buy or borrow from the library
- Roll for fantasy, includes tons of GM guides on how to do EVERYTHING
How to play a game
Where to find a group
- Start Playing (typically, GM is paid by players)
- Roll 20 looking for group (lfg) (mix of paid, unpaid)
- LFG subreddit
Generators and roll tables
Map making
- Inkarnate, freemium mapmaking software
- Dungeon Scrawl, free Old-School Dungeon maker
- HUGE list of map making resources
Worldbuilding
- World building pasta blog
- List of world building resources, stackexchange
- Mythic Scribes, fantasy worldbuilding blog
AP resources
Information
Setup
For video and podcast recording in a home studio.- Making a sound booth with PVC + moving blankets (DIY instructions)
- How to light your space (YouTube video)
Music & Sound Effects
For podcast and video soundscaping.- Syrinscape, ambient music and sound effects, monthly sub or a la carte
- Monument studios, fantasy and horror music, a la carte
- White Bat Audio, retro synthwave horror and sci-fi music, FREE
- Free Music Archive, mishmash of ambient music (and other types), FREE
- Pixebay, free music, images, video and sound effects
Video Stock Footage & SFX
For trailers, intro videos, or video post-production.- Footage Crate, special fx and sound fx, many are free (or pay for premium)
- Pixabay, tons of free stock footage
- Pexels, tons of free stock footage
- YouTube -- seach for "royalty free" and "copyright free" footage to discover freely shared video
Public domain art
For overlays and publicity material.- Skeleton Code Machine's Guide to Public domain art resources
- Wellcome collection, lots of weird old medical and science textbooks
- Public Domain Review, fun thematic collections