On Snot and Fonts: It's not flashy or graphics-laden or even colorful. It's just a very, very, very complete guide to where you can find any kind of font, or information about fonts, or tools for making fonts, or forums for discussing fonts . . . Anything. I love fonts (and make them myself, for fun) and I love Luc Devroye's unfortunately-titled website. It deserves to be the world's most popular website with "snot" in the title. If you like fonts, go.

http://cg.scs.carleton.ca/~luc/fonts.html

Category: Role-Playing Games

John Kim's Free RPGs on the Web: There aren't any cool, general-hobby gaming sites. There are a handful of "okay" ones, but coolness seems to be reserved for game-specific works. Most gamers feel the majority of the passion for their game(s) of choice, I think, rather than the challenges of the hobby as a whole. My brain works the other way, though, so my favorite gaming site is the one that carries me to new games, and (better still) free new games. There are a few high-profile free-RPG pages on the Web, but Kim leaves them all cringing in his icy shadow. Go grab one, and play.

http://www.darkshire.net/jhkim/rpg/freerpgs/

Category: Gamebooks

Demian's Gamebook Webpage: What Luc Devroye does for fonts, Demian Katz does for gamebooks, pickapaths, and solitaire adventures. You know the ones: If you stab the guard, go to 34. If you turn into mist and slink under the door, turn to 16. If you just ask the way to the Men's Room, go to 198. Remember those? So does Demian, and he's a really cool guy with a really cool, thorough website, the best a gamebook collector could ever hope for.

http://www.gamebooks.org/

Category: Writing

Wordplay: Most websites for writers are like most magazines for writers: pointless dream-sheets for foot-shuffling wannabes. Wordplay is such a shining exception that I love it even though I have no real interest in its primary thrust, which is Hollywood screenwriting. The parts that are applicable to my work as a game-writer are good stuff though, and it's just a very sharp, professional, very real piece of work.

http://www.wordplayer.com/welcome.html

Category: Close Personal Pals

Rogue's Den of Iniquity: I have many friends to love. I have many friends with websites. Rogue's Den of Iniquity is that rarest of things: a friend's website that I love. Of course, I love Rogue, too; she's like the sister I never had (which is probably good, because if I'd grown up with Rogue I fear I'd be shorter from beatings). A truly cool, occasionally disturbing, sometimes thought-provoking and thoroughly personal website.

http://www.frankenhooker.com/denofiniquity/

Category: Paper Miniatures

Card Modeling FAQ: This is for hardcore card modelers (which I'm not) but it also includes nearly-exhaustive lists of online sources of paper miniatures and paper models, including an enormous list of freebies. Sadly, my own Sparks stuff isn't included, but just about everything else is, and there's no better source for new ways to clutter your desk with really cool things made of light cardstock.

http://www.cardfaq.org/

Category: Naughtiness

Asia Carrera's XXX Buttkicking Homepage: Did you know that there's porn on the Internet? It's apparently true. I was shocked. But more important, while there is porn everywhere, there is very rarely "porn" like this. Asia is a genuine adult film star (now retired), but she's genuine in a lot more ways than that: she's a video-game junkie who posts bloopers, personal gripes and celebrations of the moments of her life, really cute pictures of her pets (both the kitties and her computers seem to qualify), and enough insights into her world that her site feels exactly like what it is: a personal homepage.

http://www.asiacarrera.com/

Category: Medieval Stuff

ORB: The Online Reference Book is a massively-cool gateway to the world of medieval interests on the web, and there's a lot of stuff to link to, apparently. Most of it is bone-crackingly dry, of course, but when you've just got to have one more cool detail to make your 7th-Level Bullywug Slayer a little more rustic-feeling, this is the place to go.

http://www.the-orb.net/

Category: M(h)ag(j)i(y)c(k/ck/cke) and Occult

Avatar Search: Not only is it the very best Occult Search Engine online, I'm pretty sure it's the only one. But it can provide hours of enlightenment, connect you to our Crystal Dolphin Space Friends, help you align your chakras (so that's what was causing that grinding noise when you were walking up hills) and generally avoid life on planet Earth in favor of someplace lit by magic rainbows and smelling of sandalwood and unicorn droppings. Plus, it's easy to imagine Tara and Willow using it, and how cool is that?

http://www.avatarsearch.com/

Category: Guilty Pleasures

Metaspy: Normally I regard the words "guilty" and "pleasure" as mutually exclusive, but this one feels naughty and I like it. See what other websurfers are searching for! Drop your jaw in shock! And not just because people are searching for pictures of naked teenage farm animals, either. It's just as shocking that people regularly go to Metacrawler and type in something like "yahoo.com" as a search function. Crazy.

http://www.metaspy.com/

Of course, these aren't my only links. I've got Risus links on the Risus page, colleague links on the CG&D Links page, cooking links on the cooking page, Star Trek links on the Star Trek page, GURPS links on the GURPS Links Page, Uresia links on Blue Lamp Road (in the Fan Archives) and so on ... I like links!