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RPG Bloggers Unite!

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Last year, Dave the Game and Bartoneus of Critical-Hits approached me with an idea to create a sort of hub where the RSS feeds of various RPG bloggers could be found on one site. The idea was not to create competition but rather create a combined stop for RPG blog readers where they could glance at the titles and short excerpts of the recent posts of various RPG blogs.

With the announced demise of Gleemax and a flurry of activity in our e-mailboxes as various would-be entrepreneurs were moving on the news, we decided to make our own move.

Please allow me to introduce to you http://rpgbloggers.com/. It’s the newest house for the combined feeds of a few RPG blogs that decided to join the network at launch.

The idea is quite simple. If readers see posts of interest to them, they click on them and get transported directly to the original post on the blogger’s website. That’s it, no post slurping, no stealing of content. It’s a one stop shop for a group of like-minded bloggers that will surely grow.

At launch, the current blogs are on board:

I hope many more will join! If you are interested, have a look here for our adhesion requirements.

This is not a social media site, it’s not a forum and it most certainly not about a Brain in a Jar! It’s a bunch of friendly bloggers joining together to make their content easier to access for their shared/overlapping communities.

Will it grow out of this to something bigger? Maybe, only time will tell. For now, it’s something geeky that we’re proud to be part of.

Comments

  7. @Tenach: If your blog has a few RPG posts and you can find a way to isolate them in your feed (usually through categories) then you can submit it to Dave,

    @Questing GM: In your sidebar, there’s a ‘subscribe to Questing GM’ option. That points to various ‘Feeds’ of your blog. You need to find the address where it points to and submit this to Dave over the ‘join us’ page.

    @Bartoneus: Why thank you… now that you mention it, I think I made a Frenchism which just happens to fit in English too.

  8. Ooooo! Lots of Brains in /lots/ of Jars 🙂

    Very neatly put together too. Well done and good luck, guys and gals. World domination is only a planet away.

  9. YES! I is Teh Boomstick!

    Unfortunately, now I have to step up the content a bit…why do all swords have to be double edged? Why can’t I have a stinkin Falchion for once!

    Stand back folks, it could get BIG! lol! …too much caffiene = aforementioned sword.

    Donny_the_DMs last blog post..A completely random epic hook…

  11. Thanks guys, the response to the new site has been absolutely staggering and there’s actually some jostling at the gate.

    Membership nearly quadrupled in less than 24 hours!

    This…. is something.

    Please don’t blame us too hard if we turtle a bit while absorbing this response.

  16. I hate to be a spoil-sport, but the blog network seems to result in a high quantity, but not necessarily high quality. There is a smattering of decent posts and lot of noise, interspersed with some blog posts dedicated to individual campaigns.

    It might be hard and/or elitist, but I’m thinking it would be a good idea to be a little more selective in who gets through the door. Raise the bar of entry and make it a real badge of quality to be selected. Hell, close down all entrance and make it an invite-only club.

  18. I’m all over it! Thanks a ton for putting this up. Now that Gleemax is gone, I hope to see more community control over projects like this.

    Let me know if you have any coding issues, Johnny over at RoleplayingTips will (hopefully!) be more than willing to give you plenty of good references about my work.

  19. Thanks Eric.

    We are currently discussing what to do about the prolonged crash and technical issues we’re currently dealing with.

    I’ll let you know.

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