Links
A collection of useful websites.
Personal Web Presence
- Livejournal
- A blog with a built-in social network. Livejournal's useful for everything from first drafts of RPG reviews to commentary of current affairs, drifting through a wide swathe of pointless ramblings, in-jokes, and commentary on geek media on the way.
- Despite posing as a "microblogging" service, Twitter is somewhere between a Chan-esque forum and a slowed-down IRC channel, notable mostly for the ability to select who you read on a per-person rather than a per-channel basis. Most really trivial updates go here.
I've been known to use other services, including Ning-based social networks, del.icio.us for social bookmarking, and the like. I don't have the discipline to keep using them, so I don't list them here. Likewise, I have neither Facebook or Myspace because they don't offer anything I need.
Roleplaying Resources
- White Wolf Game Studios
- The publisher of most of my roleplaying-related writing, and the online home of the World of Darkness.
- Mob United Media
- Malcolm Sheppard's design house is the publisher of Æternal Legends, as well as offering an ethical approach to publishing creator-owned roleplaying games.
- RPG.net
- Love it or hate it, RPG.net is the largest roleplaying-related site on the internet. In addition to an excellent reviews database, the real highs (and lows) come from the extensive forums.
- Shadownessence
- A rather in-depth collection of forums primarily centered around White Wolf's World of Darkness settings.
Other Writers
- Jess Hartley
- Jess Hartley is a novelist, writer, and freelance writer/editor in the gaming industry.
- TerribleMinds
- Chuck Wendig is another writer and developer in the gaming industry.
- BlackHatMatt
- Matt McFarland is yet another writer and developer working in the gaming industry.
- Filamena
- Filamena Young is still another writer, though she doesn't confine herself to just the gaming industry
Tools
- Crimson Editor
- One of any number of fully-featured text editors for Windows that can replace the rather anaemic Notpad. I use Crimson because I'm familiar with it and it does everything I need, including project management and robust syntax highlighting.
- Smultron
- Oddly enough, OS X has a similar range of text editors to Windows. Smultron is my editor of choice, a Cocoa application with full regex support and decent enough syntax highlighting. All HTML files on this site were created in either Crimson Editor or Smultron.
- CSS Reference
- An invaluable reference manual to all standard CSS properties.
- XHTML Reference
- An invaluable reference manual to XHTML elements and attributes.
- MaxDesign
- A useful selection of tutorials for getting the most out of CSS.
Last updated on 2010-01-27
