2019-01-28 Old RPG Blog Lists

I found my old OPML file from 2008 and extracted the link to the various news sources I was following at the time. Some are still around!

OPML file from 2008

I saved a copy back when I joined to the RPG Bloggers Network. Do you remember that site? Its imminent demise back in 2009 made me think about starting my own two RPG Planets. Back in 2011 the OSR RPG Blog Planet had over 300 blogs! And please remember: there are two *new, opt-in* RPG Planets you can join if you run a blog. Please join!

RPG Bloggers Network

demise back in 2009

two RPG Planets

OSR RPG Blog Planet

Please join!

In 2008, I played *D&D 3.5* or *Pathfinder*. So many *Live Journal* accounts! Eric Mona, Jason Buhlman, Mike Mearls, Monte Cook, Ryan Dancey, Sean K Reynolds, Wolfgang Baur, they were all there. Where did they all go? I guess the players of *D&D 5E* and *Pathfinder* would know, but I don’t. So much enthusiasm! Jason Buhlman turning his house rules into *Pathfinder*. Eric Mona doing the *Dungeon* & *Dragon* magazines, the Adventure Paths (I bought all the *Dungeon* issues for *Savage Tide*, I ran *Shackled City*, I bought all the *Pathfinder Adventure Path* issues up to ​#60), and *Pathfinder* itself, and the *Planet Stories* books! Mike Mearls got published by Monte Cook with *Iron Heroes*. Monte Cook published *Ptolus* and other books. I finally realised that I could buy PDFs. Ryan Dancey brought us the *Open Gaming License* and the slow trickle of rule alternatives turned into retro-clones and the *Old School Renaissance* (OSR). And Sean K Reynolds wrote his D&D 3.5 stuff and then he wrote for Pathfinder. And Wolfgang Baur had patrons before there was a company called Patreon! I bought the second and third *Open Design* PDFs from him.

Time flies.

And now Google+ is sinking and people are going to *MeWe* (don’t leave for another silo!), *Pluspora*, *Mastodon*...

And another thing I noticed when I looked at the list: there was not a single HTTPS link. How things have changed!

Let me quickly check the list for you: 👍️ → the site is still online, ⛔ → site not accessible, 😕 → not an RPG blog.

in der blackbox

Greywulfs Lair

RetroRoleplaying: The Blog

RetroRoleplaying: the Blog

Campaign Wiki: RecentChanges

Musings of the chatty DM

Critical-Hits

Solitude

Jonathan Drains D20 Source: Dungeons & Dragons Blog

D20 Source RPG Blog

Deltas D&D Hotspot

The Dragons Breath

Echoes of Heaven

Cartographers Guild - Featured Maps

Wizards Community - D&D Experience Staff Blogs

Green Ronin Publishing

Grognardia

Save or Die

Greywulf's Lair

Inner Circle

Violet Dawn

Codex of the Infinite Pains

Jeffs Gameblog

Lemuria Press

Paperback Flash

LotFP: RPG

Lamentations of the Flame Princess

Mearlss Journal

Merric's Musings

Microlite20

The Chapel Perilous

Open Design

Kobold Press

Paizo Blog

Paizo Blog

Praemal Tales

RPGMapShare.com

RolePlay onLine

rsdancey

rycanada

seankreynolds

Strange Maps

The Tao of D&D

The Monkey King

Trollsmyth

Well of Urd

Wilderlands OD&D

Ex-Teenage Rebel

ENWorld

Gnome Stew

hack/

Trasks Wisdom

Sinister Adventures

The Alexandrian

Treasure Tables

So Many Games...

It’s been a long time!

I guess of all these sites, the one that I find still interesting is Trollsmyth. Thanks!

Trollsmyth

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