Is rpgbot.net legit or a scam?
RPGBOT.net is an award-winning TTRPG resource site with an 11-year history, clean security scans, and extensive positive community feedback.
Score breakdown
Analysis Summary
No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Website Preview
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Visual Screenshot Analysis
We capture a fresh screenshot of the live page and ask a vision model to look for scam visual patterns — fake trust badges, countdown timers, overlay pop-ups, and visual clones of legitimate brands.
No scam visual patterns detected
The website appears to be a legitimate, fully-rendered resource for tabletop roleplaying games with no visual indicators of scamming or malicious intent.
What our vision model saw
6 signalsProfessional layout with consistent branding and navigation menus for TTRPG content
Functional search bar and newsletter subscription form with standard UI elements
Visible social media links and Patreon integration for community support
Clear, contextually relevant text describing the site's purpose as a gaming resource
No evidence of urgency tactics, fake trust badges, or intrusive pop-ups
Design and content align with the RPGBOT.net domain mentioned in the text
MT Intelligence
The domain has been active since 2015 and is operated by a known individual in the gaming community. Our antivirus network shows zero detections across 92 different engines, and the hosting IP has a perfect reputation score. The site features original, human-written content and is supported by a large Patreon community rather than deceptive advertising. Extensive research across gaming forums confirms it is a trusted staple for character optimization guides. There are no indicators of phishing, malware, or fraudulent intent.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for rpgbot.net, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain rpgbot.net created May 18, 2015 (11+ years old as of 2026); registered via 1&1 IONOS SE with privacy protection.
- Site founded in 2013 by Tyler 'RPGBOT' Kamstra (software developer, Seattle area); expanded to team including Aimee Kamstra, Ash Ely, and others.
- RPGBOT.net is Ennie Award-winning (nominated/won in categories like Best Online Content); focuses on D&D/Pathfinder character optimization guides, tools, product reviews, and RPGBOT.Podcast.
- Active presence: Patreon (736 members, 2,819 posts), YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, X (@RPGBOTDOTNET), Spotify podcast; emphasizes 'No AI Needed' human-written content.
- Reddit discussions (r/3d6, r/DnD, r/dndnext) reference site positively for consistent guides but include some criticism of class guide quality or past ad issues.
- No scam, fraud, malware, or phishing reports found across searches; one older Reddit mention of intrusive ads on the site.
- Business model: ad-supported with Patreon tiers for ad-free access; partners mentioned (e.g., Kobold Press for Black Flag Reference Document).
- Reddit r/3d6open
"RPGBOT is nice because it covers pretty much everything regarding character creation in a consistent and easy to read manner. I think the best ..."
- Reddit r/DnDopen
"Hello! So, when I was starting to play D&D I often would search for specific stuff on google. And one of the websites Ive found was the one on the title."
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Technical checksdomain · encryption · redirects · server reputation
Contact Verification
We fetched the page and looked for real-world contact details. Legitimate businesses almost always publish an email on their own domain, a phone number, and a postal address. Scam shops usually don't.
- No contact email found anywhere on the page.
- No phone number listed on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
- Links to 5 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://rpgbot.net/
- 2200https://rpgbot.net/
Server Reputation
Still, stay alert
No major threat indicators — but a clean scan does not guarantee every page is safe, and phishing emails routinely spoof real domains.
- Double-check the exact URL in your address bar
Confirm you are actually on rpgbot.net and not a lookalike like r-pgbot.net.com or an IDN homoglyph.
- Use a password manager
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Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
Safety FAQ
Common questions about this site, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers always reflect the latest verdict on this page.
- Our automated security review found no threat indicators on rpgbot.net. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- rpgbot.net passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 92/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. rpgbot.net presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · YE2, expiring in 56 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- rpgbot.net is 11.1 years old, registered on 5/18/2015 through IONOS SE. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. All 92 antivirus engines in our malware network report rpgbot.net as clean.
- No. rpgbot.net is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- rpgbot.net resolves to an IP operated by Cloudflare, Inc. in US (usage type: Content Delivery Network). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad, but unusual geography for a brand's claimed country is one of many signals we weigh.
- This is a permanent record of the scan run on July 4, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around rpgbot.net have changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan, which re-runs every check from scratch and publishes an updated report.
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