Free Online Resources

Dungeons and Dragons has seen a great deal of growth in the digital enviroment as the internet has grown. Official sources and fan made creations have flourished, creating much more content for not only the needs of the players who play, in person, at a table and those who have been pioneering the world of digital tabletop gaming through the internet. Accessing this information is surprisingly simple, all it requires is the internet connection that is already being used to access this guide. If a user is searching for this information through an engine such as Google, each resource will be given a few keyword terms in order to locate it through that engine.

Game Content Resources
Depending on the version of the game there are a number of different online resources that can be utilized. Shared among all game rulesets there are countless PDFs that can be accessed online for free. Much of these can be found by searching Dungeons and Dragons, inserting which ruleset or book desired, and ended with PDF. A great deal of care needs to be given if a site asks a user to download the resource, but many with display the PDF without needing a download.

Other resources are website based, making up the entire content of the website or housing multiple different sources of content.

Dungeons and Dragons v3.5
 * System Reference Document

Resources for Playing Online
As far as digital gaming spaces apply, there is, at current, only one major resource that is well known and well established as far as features are concerned. It is called Roll20 and it is a true digital tabletop with several other features,
 * Group Finder for joining tabletop games in progress or locating players for a game of your own.
 * Browser based.
 * Shared graphical tabletop.
 * Player enhancements.
 * Background Music.
 * Journals.
 * Dice macros.
 * Rules "agnostic"
 * It can be used with any type of tabletop game, not just Dungeons and Dragons.
 * Free. Totally and completely.