RSS Feed Recommendations?

[CharlesWallace]

I don't usually post new threads, so apologies if this isn't the right place or whatever, but I recently got an RSS reader and started adding a bunch of OSR / D&D blogs to it. It's been pretty fun. I was wondering if people had any suggestions for additional blogs? I really like reading posts as opposed to watching videos. Here's what I have in my reader currently:

 

[TheAlkaizer]

Skeleton Code Machine is a fantastic active blog with lots of exploration of game design in board games and TTRPG. It gets my mind running at my work all the time.

Prismatic Wasteland is kind of a classic OSR blog to follow. Cited very often.

I like the Vaults of Vaarn blog. It's specifically about that game, but Leo Hunt shares a lot of his progress and it has always inspired me.

Explorers Design is a fantastic blog that started not too long ago. He has a focus on layout and editing but he touches on other elements.

I love Luke Gearing's work and his blog has frequent posts about his work, design ideas or small systems he's tinkering with.

Also, I check Yochai Gal's blogroll every morning with my coffee. It has a good selection.

 

[Fenris-77]

Man, now I want an RSS reader. Which one are you using and would you recommend it?

 

[CharlesWallace]

I'm using windows 11 on a surface pro, and I just grabbed one from the windows store called Fluent Reader. It has several different views, which was interesting me. I'm using list view currently, and it looks like this:

It's free, so it's hard not to recommend at least trying it. I just missed RSS and thought, well, why not try it out.

 

[CharlesWallace]

Skeleton Code Machine is a fantastic active blog with lots of exploration of game design in board games and TTRPG. It gets my mind running at my work all the time.

Prismatic Wasteland is kind of a classic OSR blog to follow. Cited very often.

I like the Vaults of Vaarn blog. It's specifically about that game, but Leo Hunt shares a lot of his progress and it has always inspired me.

Explorers Design is a fantastic blog that started not too long ago. He has a focus on layout and editing but he touches on other elements.

I love Luke Gearing's work and his blog has frequent posts about his work, design ideas or small systems he's tinkering with.

Also, I check Yochai Gal's blogroll every morning with my coffee. It has a good selection.

Amazing- this is exactly the kind of stuff I was hoping for! Thank you!

 

[Fenris-77]

I've been kvetching about trying to keep up with the blogs I like anyway, so this topic is seredipitous. Coins and Scrolls is an awsome blog. As is Cannibal Halfling.

 

[Shawnster_P]

Man, now I want an RSS reader. Which one are you using and would you recommend it?

FreshRSS, a free, self-hostable feeds aggregator. It's open source, so you are not the product. You can self host, or use an existing server (which is what I do). This means you can access it from any device directly from a browser. No need for additional software or extensions (although there are browser extensions if you want. I just don't bother). Anyway, cannot recommend it enough.

Fwiw, fluent reader as I recall is open source as well. It is a local client, so it would only work on one machine whereas freshrss works on anything all at once. Just depends on what you want.

 

[SlyFlourish]

I have a big list of RSS feeds I've been pruning. There's a lot of OSR in here but a lot of other RPG stuff too:

Sly Flourish's RPG Blogroll

There's an OPML file linked there for all the feeds.

And, of course, I'd add Sly Flourish to the list...

https://slyflourish.com/index.xml

Full articles, no ads.

For RSS readers, I love NetNewsWire on my iphone.

 

[HippyCraig]

I use Feedly it replaced the google rss tool different company but there is an iPad app and for the iPhone as well as browser support for pc or Mac. The great part is that they all sync so if I marked something read on another device they all stay in sync I can easily pick up where I left off it’s free