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What Other RPG and GMing Sites Do You Read?
Fri. July 14, 2006
I’ve always found that personal recommendations are the best way to learn about new (to me) sites, and that goes for gaming and GMing links, too. And I think it’s a very safe bet that the TT community can learn about some great links from fellow readers.
So how about it — what GMing and RPG-related sites are in your regular rotation?
Anything is fair game: Ongoing sites, one-offs that only offered one awesome resource, forums, blogs, game- and campaign-specific sites — the works.
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20 Responses to “What Other RPG and GMing Sites Do You Read?”
rec.games.frp
I also subscribe to the http://www.roleplayingtips.com weekly email.
Of course, this is because I don’t actually have time or people to play.
http://www.roleplayingtips.com – Great tips, weekly.
http://www.enworld.org/ – Biggest D&D forum outside WotC (I think), good general RPG news, daily.
http://d20srd.org/ – I check the forums for updates to the site, very infrequent. (I use the SRD all the time.)
Once in a while I check the WotC Eberron forums too.
And of course, TT and the TT forums.
On my preset dial (aka bookmarked and often visited):
http://www.enworld.org (forums & reviews)
http://www.gamingreport.com (current news)
http://www.true20.com (especially the forums)
http://www.rpgdfw.com (community rpg site)
http://www.rpg.net (reviews)
http://www.roleplayingtips.com (subscriber)
http://www.rpgnow.com (fav retail spot)
And I take a look at most things you point out – other blogs especially.
Roleplayingtips
Iron Crown Ent. http://www.ironcrown.com
Fudge List and quite a few other mailing lists
and here
I like to start with Vincent Baker’s Anyway. Then I wander here, then I hit Central Valley Gamers for local events.
Other relatively common hangouts include:
Piazzo’s D&D Board, Chris Chinn’s blog, and the Burning Void blog.
the Forge
Story Games
Deep in the Game
Welcome to Frank’s World (my blog)
anyway
RPG Talk
I also subscribe to a bunch of Yahoo groups and other e-mail lists specific to my interests (right now, lots of RuneQuest and Glorantha lists). I have more bookmarks than you can shake a stick at for fan materials for systems and settings of interest.
When I was running Arcana Unearthed/Evolved, I made heavy use of Ok Your Turn. I did also look at Enworld, RPG Now, and DriveThru RPG to see what was upcomming for products. I look at Roleplaying Tips on occaision.
Frank
I like to read the http://shootingdice.blogspot.com blog – when he feels like writing I tend to find it either entertaining or thought-provoking.
The ones mentioned above, plus
Paizo http://www.paizo.com
Wizards of the Coast http://www.wizards.com/dnd
How about podcasts?
Here are two I usually catch.
Durham 3 http://rpgtalk.net/durham3
All Games Considered http://allgamesconsidered.blogspot.com
* http://www.story-games.com/
* http://www.indie-rpgs.com/
http://www.sjgames.com/
http://www.sjgames.com/pyramid/
http://rpgblog.typepad.com/
http://www.ogrecave.com/
http://www.20by20room.com/
… and in french :
http://www.roliste.com/
Excellent! With a couple of exceptions, I regularly or irregularly read nearly all of the sites that have been mentioned so far. Great minds think alike, right?
The Durham 3 podcast was a surprise, and it looks interesting.
Have you found any surprises or new gems in this list?
The Wizards.COMmunity D&D Character Optimization Boards.
Reading this forum once or twice a day taught me the rules (and let me memorize sources!) much more quickly than all the time I’ve spent DMing put together.
CrystalKeep’s D&D section is also a great tool for those with few books or who need refences on the go.
T
As far as older D&D settings go, since I’m a fan of the ideas behind Dark Sun and Planescape, it’s hard for me to not plug http://www.athas.org and http://www.planewalker.com as sites to go to. 3.5 ed conversions of the two sites are really giving me inspirations for games I’d love to run, and talking with other fans of the settings give me a nice grounding point for my ideas.
Many of the other sites on the list are ones I enjoy too, so I’m not gonna link ‘em too.
RPGPundit is the first gaming-related site I read everyday.
When the gaming gets too serious you gotta check out http://www.giantitp.com/cgi-bin/GiantITP/ootscript
for some gamer humor.
If you roleplay and don’t know about Order of the Stick, you are really missing out.
Surprisingly few.
Everyone, I agree with MountZionRyan above– if you haven’t tried Order of the Stick, you’re missing out.
Thirded. I’ve found very few better comics — web or no.
T
I cannot wait for the new OoTS book — and the game! — at GenCon.
fourth vote for OOTS. motion passes.
i’m generally too busy writing or coding to check anything other than OOTS and TT. and i should really be writing more.