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Review: RPGSeek.com

January 10th, 2009 by ambrose

I’m probably a little late on the uptake for this review, but I am truly impressed with RPGseek and kind of wish to share my impressions.

(A note on the scale used for the reviews: scores range from 3-18 with, you guessed it, 10 being average)

Premise 17 : In all honesty, I wasn’t sure that we needed a site like this until I used it. Truly, truly a vital kind of resource. Human indexing ensures, in many ways, the overall quality of the sites included with regard to spam, etc. A possible drawback is that the site, being human indexed, may grow more slowly than other, more technology-based RPG search engines, but I think tat most of us are so tired of enormous search engine result pages that we are more willing to wait, after all.**My personal beef, but not necessarily a real premise problem, is that all submitted links are designated “nofollow,” whic seems counterintuitive since it is human indexed for quality content, after all, but it is more of an administrators perogative, so whatever.”

Interface 14 : The design is simple, loads quickly, and is so similar to google(who powers the search engine) that it’s familiarity is it’s first selling point. Boolean terms all function perfectly and properly, all in all, a big A+ for mainstream browsers. The interface leaves a bit to be desired for some users, such as myself, who use minimalist/ lite footprint browsers(I’m currently writing this on “Epiphany,” a gecko based browser for linux). Mostly simple, easy to ignore, easy to fix stuff, but a little bit annoying for non-mainstream users.

Content 18 : I can’t tell you how many times I have lost myself in any of the hundreds of nonhuman indexed sites dedicated to gaming out there. Honestly, sometimes I think pople like me are part of the problem, gamers who know how to use the internet to publish. RPGSeek solves this problem by having actual people, who care about the content they distribute and listen to user suggestions(more than any other directory I’ve used, as a matter of fact.) They provide what amounts to the cream of the crop compared to a standard google search.

Organization 10(But a Tome of Increase Organization+5 isn’t out of the question): I am not going to lie. I love directories. I know they are old fashioned. I know that they are impractical in many ways. I know that they remain human indexed because of spam targeting. I still love them, because I can control the specificity of the areas I look for. This, is not my favorite directory. To tell the truth, though, I still like it because I see potential once it become necessary to categorize more specifically. I give this one a ten because it seems like it could be so much more, but hasn’t had the oppourtunity yet.

Overall 14.75/18

An exceptional ranking, If I do say so myself. A D&D character with those stats would be a force to be reckoned with, I’m looking forward to using this site in the future.(I was going to say as it gained XP, but even I think that’s lame.