RPGFU

heromachine

Online Flash application that lets you create your own super hero! No stats, but fun anyway.

squid.org - RPG Tool
Select a template from the drop down list, select the number of times you want to run the generator, and hit “Go” to create a random list of ideas, people and place names.

Another batch of small random generators.

Black Industries

Useful for a variety of games.

Sleepy Dog Labs - Covert Public Messages
To the unaided eye, the mosaic of tinted film squares seems uniform and holds no particular meaning.

But when viewed though a polarized filer (or a pair of polarized sunglasses), the concealed message becomes clear.

Cute idea for passing hidden messages between PCs and NPCs.

Pauper chic TLS

If you’re running a game in Victorian or industrial revolution era England, you may appreciate the details in this article about the economy, clothing styles, etc.

OpenTTD is a clone of the Microprose game “Transport Tycoon Deluxe”, a popular game originally written by Chris Sawyer. It attempts to mimic the original game as closely as possible while extending it with new features.
OpenTTD - News

One of the things I love about games like Civilization, SimCity, etc. is that you can create your own worlds fairly quickly and easily, and adapt them to table top games. This is a free version of Transport Tycoon Deluxe. Just design your world, pause the game, and use it for your RPG.

Seventh Sanctum

Contains many tiny little random generators, for all sorts of things that you’d need in your games.

HeroForge Character Generation Toolkit Download Page

This is a bunch of character sheets and generators created in Excel spreadsheets.

Create and Share Floorplans Online with Floorplanner.com
Creating professional looking floorplans has never been easier. MyFloorplanner allows you to create and share interactive floorplans for your room, home or office. A useful tool when you are buying a new home, planning an extension to your house just want to give your living room a make-over.

Although it is limited for free accounts, it can be very handy when you need a floor plan for your game and don’t have any of the other software listed here installed, such as at work or a friend’s computer.

Patrick Barkham reports on the last charge of the Knights Templar | World news | The Guardian
Almost 700 years after the Pope burned their leader at the stake, the Knights Templar are back. Or are they? Patrick Barkham tries to find out why the long-vanished order of Crusaders might suddenly be advertising in the press

Did the Knights Templar come back? If they did, how would they fit in a modern setting? That’s for you to decide!