I  discovered that I was able to actually get onto www.story-games.com  This site is devoted to indie rpgs in all of the various ways they can be viewed.  Additionally, I actually found a site that is trying to become a playtest area, www.playtesting.co.uk.  Two more awesome places for discussing games and talking about how to make them better.  The first site must have changed their admission policy because I wasn't able to get on them before.  The second site, to my knowledge, isn't exclusive although they seem to have games with a narrative bent.  

At this point, I'll go ahead and tell the other sites I use when talking about rpgs.   I go to forum.rpg.net and I also to www.therpgsite.com.  The first site has a stronger area for publishers to go to and discuss the actual creation of games while the second one gives you a very honest opinion from a player's perspective.  That said, both sites cross-pollinate, even though some over at www.therpgsite.com prefers the "hands off" approach to moderation.  Therefore, I get very different flavors from each forum instead of vanilla forums.  

There are some other good ones but I don't frequent them a lot because of time management.  For instance, www.enworld.com is a very good for "d20 people" but I don't create games using that set of rules.  Posting there is a less efficient use of my promotion time.  Other sites have a much lower membership that doesn't justify a lot of time in them.  

I have limited partnerships with a few other rpg publishers.  I have "friendly" status with http://basicroleplaying.com/ and I have cross promoted with www.arcnusmagicus.com  http://www.sanestudios.peregrinedruids.com/, www.legendaryquest.com and www.rpglinks.net/ There are some rpg news sites that I use to post announcements about my own products.  Those sites include www.gamingreport.com , www.gamewyrd.com , http://www.rpgnews.com and www.onebookshelf.com

My next goal is to join www.yourgamesnow.com.  This site sell PDFs of rpgs but they use a co-op method for selling their games.  Anyone who wants to sell there has to be voted in by the present membership.  I also want to trade links with other websites because that can raise the exposure for both parties along with increasing their rank in the search engines.  Finally, all of the above have to thank me for talking about their sites now.:)

P.S. I barely skimmed the surface about the available website, blogs, forums, etc. devoted to rpgs.

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