- Visibility41
- Citations1
- Sentiment75
- Site quality60
- AI readiness0
AI assistants name DriveThruRPG in 43.3% of answers, much more often than the typical company in its sector. Its overall score is 38 out of 100, ranking 519th of 2,047 companies measured. DriveThruRPG's website passes 0 of 14 technical checks for readiness for AI tools.
We asked 15 unbranded questions about the retail market: none named DriveThruRPG. AI assistants named it in 26 of 60 answers (43.3%). The typical retail company is named in 6.7% of answers. By how often it is named, DriveThruRPG ranks 35 of 640 in its sector.
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Five parts, each scored out of 100.
How often AI assistants name the company
How often AI uses the company's own website as a source
How positively AI describes the company
How well built the website's own pages are
How easily AI tools can read and use the website
Visibility is calculated from the answers on this page. How the score is built.
640 companies in this sector. The line on each bar is the typical company.
An answer that names the company
“Which platforms offer a wide variety of system-neutral RPG resources for homebrew campaigns?”
Great question — there are a number of places that specialize in or host lots of system‑neutral (or easily adaptable) RPG resources you can use for homebrew campaigns. Below are the best platforms and a short note on what you’ll find and how to use it.
Main platforms
DriveThruRPG / RPGNow — large marketplace with many independent publishers. Use “system neutral” or “rules‑light” filters/tags; many monster manuals, location books, and setting modules are intentionally system‑agnostic or easily converted.
itch.io — very friendly to small creators and experimental content; search tags like …
The AI’s answer as we received it, shortened and not checked for accuracy.
How the mentions in these answers were split between this company and its rivals
Answers naming it, out of answers received
What this website publishes for an AI agent to read, use and buy from, on a scale of six levels.
This website turned most of our scan away, so it has no level. Only 3% of the checks could run. That reflects the website’s rules for automated visitors, and an AI agent arriving by itself meets the same rules.
We could not tell. The website turned away our requests for the files an agent would read. An agent arriving by itself is turned away the same way.
- UCPCould not check
- ACPCould not check
- AP2Not present
- x402Not present
- MPPCould not check
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- study: 92.0%robots.txtCould not check
Publish a valid robots.txt with crawl rules and a Sitemap line.
- study: 86.8%SitemapCould not check
Serve an XML sitemap and reference it from robots.txt.
- study: 0.3%Link headersCould not check
Send Link headers such as rel="api-catalog" or rel="describedby" on the homepage.
- study: 5.5%DNS for AI DiscoveryPassed
SVCB or HTTPS records under _agents that advertise agent endpoints.
- study: 1.9%Markdown negotiationCould not check
Return a markdown version when asked with Accept: text/markdown, for example at the CDN.
- study: 25.1%llms.txtCould not check
Publish an llms.txt with a short summary and the key links.
- study: 93.4%AI bot rulesCould not check
Add explicit robots.txt groups for the main AI crawlers.
- study: 1.4%Content SignalsCould not check
Add a Content-Signal line for search, ai-input and ai-train to robots.txt.
- study: 0.2%Web Bot AuthCould not check
Only relevant if you run your own agents or crawlers: publish a signing key directory.
- study: 0.3%API CatalogCould not check
List public APIs in a linkset at /.well-known/api-catalog.
- study: 11.8%OAuth discoveryCould not check
Publish OpenID Connect or OAuth server metadata under /.well-known.
- study: 10.3%OAuth Protected ResourceCould not check
Serve protected resource metadata at /.well-known/oauth-protected-resource.
- study: 0.0%auth.mdCould not check
Publish an auth.md describing how agents sign in.
- study: 0.2%MCP Server CardCould not check
Offer an MCP server and publish its server card under /.well-known.
- study: 0.1%A2A Agent CardCould not check
Publish an agent card at /.well-known/agent-card.json.
- study: 0.2%Agent SkillsCould not check
Publish a skills index with the main tasks agents can do.
- study: 33.7%WebMCPCould not check
Register key actions such as search or cart as WebMCP tools.
- study: 0.1%ARD manifestCould not check
Publish an ai-catalog.json listing every agent interface.
Score 100 of 100 · 3% of checks could run · checked on October 5, 2026 · www.drivethrurpg.com · 2,047 companies scanned
0 of 14 passed. This list is for your technical team. The percentage is how many companies in the study pass each check.
These 14 checks ran during the audit and are what the AI readiness part of the overall score counts. The scan above ran later and is stricter on Link headers and Markdown, so a check can pass here and not there.
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- Not metrobots.txt publishedstudy: 85.0%
- Not metXML sitemapstudy: 73.2%
- Not metHTTP Link headers (RFC 8288)study: 29.0%
- Not metMarkdown content negotiationstudy: 8.3%
- Not metllms.txt publishedstudy: 21.7%
- Not metToken budget (page weight)study: 95.2%
- Not metExplicit AI bot rulesstudy: 13.0%
- Not metAPI Catalog (.well-known/api-catalog)study: 0.2%
- Not metOAuth Authorization Server discoverystudy: 10.1%
- Not metOAuth Protected Resource discoverystudy: 9.3%
- Not metMCP Server Cardstudy: 0.0%
- Not metA2A Agent Cardstudy: 0.0%
- Not metWebMCP toolsstudy: 4.2%
- Not metAgent Skills declaredstudy: 0.0%
How many times each website was listed as a source in these answers
In the study as US retailers: listed as a retailer in Wikidata, a public database, and among the websites Cloudflare Radar ranks as visited.
- Which platforms offer a wide variety of system-neutral RPG resources for homebrew campaigns?
- What are the differences between general gaming eBook platforms and RPG-specific marketplaces?
- Is it better to purchase RPG adventures separately or as part of a bundle for long-term savings?
- What should I do if my downloaded RPG PDF won't open or shows errors?
- How do PDF downloads for roleplaying games compare to physical copies for home games?
- Are there good alternatives to online RPG marketplaces for accessing indie tabletop games?
- Is buying digital RPG expansions worth it compared to waiting for bundled deals?
- Where can I find print-on-demand RPG rulebooks and adventure modules in the US?
- Are print-on-demand options for indie RPGs a good value for collectors?
- How much do digital copies of popular RPG core rulebooks typically cost online?
- How can I resolve issues with print-on-demand RPG book orders, like misprints or missing pages?
- Where can game masters quickly get campaign resources and adventure modules last minute?
- What are some free or low-cost sites for downloading RPG supplements and character sheets?
- What are the best online marketplaces for buying digital tabletop RPG books?
- What are the average shipping costs for print-on-demand RPG books within the United States?
Columns, left to right: OpenAI, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini. The AI assistants often disagree. Across the study, on 40% of the questions where a company is named, only one of the four names it.
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