October Blog Rankings: IN PLACES DEEP is King!

Here's a list of 216 old school roleplaying-related blogs ranked by the number of followers they gained in October. I am ranking blogs using this system - as opposed to raw follower number - in order to determine which blogs are "hottest" without being biased by how long a blog has been around.

I am pretty excited about this list because unlike my last effort it has a ton of data for newer and less well-known blogs. My main motivation for making this list is to highlight the blogs that are currently attracting the most reader attention irregardless of the blogs' age.

My usual blogometric caveats apply: (1) This list only has blogger.com blogs because follower numbers are not publicly available for WordPress blogs. (2) Yes, I know some blogs are missing. If your blog is on my big blog list as of today, it will be in the next ranking. If your blog is not on my list and you want to be included, please send me the link.

Please go HERE to find direct links to all of these blogs, as well as the fine WordPress blogs I sadly could not include here.

Congratulations to Evan (In Places Deep) and Loquacious (World of Wonder) for rocking the blogosphere so hard over the last month! Keep it up!

			FOLLOWERS
RANK	BLOG	30-SEP	1-NOV	CHANGE
1	In Places Deep	12	51	39
2	World of Wonder	17	52	35
3	HUGE RUINED PILE	81	111	30
4	GROGNARDIA	656	685	29
4	Cyclopeatron	123	152	29
5	A Paladin In Citadel	176	198	22
5	Destination Unknown	92	114	22
6	The Blog That Time Forgot	45	66	21
7	B/X BLACKRAZOR	170	190	20
7	Hill Cantons	30	50	20
7	The Hopeless Gamer	155	175	20
8	Beyond the Black Gate	228	247	19
8	FightingFantasist	29	48	19
9	Playing D&D With Porn Stars	522	538	16
9	The Grumpy Old Troll	11	27	16
10	Akratic Wizardry	115	130	15
10	Daddy Grognard	101	116	15
10	Henchman Abuse	2	17	15
10	Risus Monkey	60	75	15
11	The Tao of D&D	120	134	14
12	"It's okay; Gary sent us."	76	89	13
12	Carjacked Seraphim	51	64	13
12	Countdown to Game Time	1	14	13
12	Crawdads and Dragons	16	29	13
12	Roles, Rules, and Rolls	41	54	13
12	Dungeons and Digressions	166	178	12
13	Dungeonskull Mountain	65	77	12
13	Swords Against the Outer Dark	130	142	12
13	The Underdark Gazette	153	165	12
13	Trollsmyth	149	161	12
14	From the Sorcerer's Skull	85	96	11
14	Greyhawk Grognard	147	158	11
14	I SEE LEAD PEOPLE	157	168	11
14	Lawful Indifferent	28	39	11
14	LotFP: RPG	263	274	11
14	THE LAND OF NOD	76	87	11
15	New Fish In An Old School	6	16	10
15	Some King's Kent	14	24	10
15	The Society of Torch, Pole and Rope	186	196	10
16	Dungeonmum	77	86	9
16	Jasoomian Dreams	26	35	9
16	Lord of the Green Dragons	214	223	9
16	Sorcery & Super Science!	32	41	9
16	Tales from the Flaming Faggot	35	44	9
16	The Contemptible Cube of Quazar	26	35	9
17	Age of Ravens	23	31	8
17	aldeboran	50	58	8
17	Axe & Hammer	69	77	8
17	Errant	9	17	8
17	Tempora Mutantur	4	12	8
17	The Gallery: Russ Nicholson	133	141	8
18	Bat in the Attic	152	159	7
18	Discourse and Dragons	59	66	7
18	How to Start a Revolution in 21 Days or Less	113	120	7
18	I Waste The Buddha With My Crossbow	77	84	7
18	Sickly Purple Death Ray	67	74	7
18	The RPG Corner	115	122	7
18	What a horrible night to have a curse…	58	65	7
19	5 Stone Games	22	28	6
19	Back in '81	97	103	6
19	Beyond the Wall	18	24	6
19	ChicagoWiz's RPG Blog	222	228	6
19	Delta's D&D Hotspot	78	84	6
19	Gaming All Over The Place	8	14	6
19	Telecanter's Receding Rules	99	105	6
19	The 25 Mile Hex	9	15	6
19	The City of Iron	3	9	6
19	The Metal Earth	47	53	6
19	The Omnipotent Eye	41	47	6
19	The Other Side blog	86	92	6
20	Aeons & Augauries	63	68	5
20	Carto Cacography	33	38	5
20	Fabled Lands	49	54	5
20	Gothridge Manor	91	96	5
20	Green Skeleton Gaming Guild	81	86	5
20	In a Dark Cell	2	7	5
20	Jeffs Gameblog	380	385	5
20	KOK'ed Dice	16	21	5
20	Like Being Read To From Dictionaries	36	41	5
20	OEF	107	112	5
20	Reviews from R'lyeh	38	43	5
20	Save Vs. Poison	71	76	5
20	Sword and Board	43	48	5
20	TEMPLE OF DEMOGORGON	111	116	5
20	The Doomed Wastelands	22	27	5
20	The Savage AfterWorld	92	97	5
20	THE WHEEL OF SAMSARA	37	42	5
20	Threads of Adventure!	31	36	5
20	Tombs of Horrors	16	21	5
20	Where'd my Vorpal Sword Go?	14	19	5
21	A Wizard in a bottle	21	25	4
21	AD&D Grognard	7	11	4
21	Bugbears for Breakfast	8	12	4
21	DUNGEON ADVENTURES	17	21	4
21	Forgotten Runes	27	31	4
21	Havards Blackmoor Blog	82	86	4
21	of Pedantry	1	5	4
21	Oubliette Magazine	26	30	4
21	Rule of the Dice	49	53	4
21	Rustfoot	34	38	4
21	SAVE OR DIE!	20	24	4
21	Tenkar's Tavern	59	63	4
21	The Grand Tapestry	120	124	4
21	The Keep on the Gaming Lands	106	110	4
21	The Lair of the Evil DM	135	139	4
21	Tower of the Archmage	49	53	4
21	Weird Worlds of Geoffrey McKinney	57	61	4
22	A Hamsterish Hoard of Dungeons and Dragons	71	74	3
22	Asshat Paladins	35	38	3
22	Bloody 20s	14	17	3
22	HeroPress	122	125	3
22	Joethelawyer's Wondrous Imaginings	95	98	3
22	Let's Make Believe	14	17	3
22	Musings from Myern	4	7	3
22	Ode to Black Dougal	123	126	3
22	Places to Go, People to Be	32	35	3
22	Quickly, Quietly, Carefully	6	9	3
22	SWORD & SHIELD	29	32	3
22	The Warlock's Home Brew	88	91	3
22	The Weirdlands of Xhuul	22	25	3
22	Trollish Delver	19	22	3
23	Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd edition	31	33	2
23	Archive of the Rotted Moon	28	30	2
23	Back to the Dungeon!	55	57	2
23	Castle Dragonscar	43	45	2
23	Drawings & Dragons	42	44	2
23	Embrace the Dungeon!	8	10	2
23	GAME SNOB	7	9	2
23	Grimmhaus	62	64	2
23	malevolent & benign	35	37	2
23	Maximum Rock & Role Playing	41	43	2
23	My RPG characters	14	16	2
23	No Signal!	11	13	2
23	Old Guard Gaming Accoutrements	117	119	2
23	Penguin Overlord	2	4	2
23	Ramblings of a Gentleman Gamer	12	14	2
23	Semper Initiativus Unum	35	37	2
23	Spell Card!	33	35	2
23	Stocking The Dungeon	17	19	2
23	Swords of Minaria	30	32	2
23	The Burning Wastes	4	6	2
23	The Delve	41	43	2
23	The Library: Retro and Classic Fantasy Games	40	42	2
23	The Moldy Vale	29	31	2
23	The Realm of Zhu	7	9	2
23	Unfrozen caveman dice-chucker	14	16	2
23	Vaults of Nagoh	63	65	2
24	Attack Plan R	10	11	1
24	Beacon	6	7	1
24	BigDungeon	8	9	1
24	chirine's workbench	33	34	1
24	Creative Mountain Games	10	11	1
24	ENCOUNTER	19	20	1
24	EXONAUTS!	51	52	1
24	For A Fistful Of Coppers	27	28	1
24	gnotions	17	18	1
24	In Like Flynn	40	41	1
24	Iron Rationales	16	17	1
24	Kingdoms in Trevail	21	22	1
24	Knightvision Games - Two Knights, One Vision	1	2	1
24	Mike's Amazing RPG Fun Pad	21	22	1
24	Monsters and Manuals	176	177	1
24	No School Like The Old School	11	12	1
24	O RPG da Vida Real	7	8	1
24	Old School Heretic	41	42	1
24	PLANET ALGOL	94	95	1
24	Rather Gamey	2	3	1
24	Redbeard's Ravings	15	16	1
24	SANDBOX EMPIRE	66	67	1
24	Saturday Night Sandbox	28	29	1
24	Sham's Grog 'n Blog	101	102	1
24	Shouting Into The Void	34	35	1
24	Superhero Necromancer	46	47	1
24	Swords of Abandon	28	29	1
24	Tankards & Broadswords	117	118	1
24	Teleleli	8	9	1
24	Terminal Space	49	50	1
24	The Badger King's Den	15	16	1
24	The Frothy Friar	46	47	1
24	The Nine and Thirty Kingdoms	65	66	1
24	The Paradigm Traveler	7	8	1
24	The Polyhedral Dicebag	22	23	1
24	The Purple Wurm	2	3	1
24	The Vorpal Spork	24	25	1
24	The Wasted Lands	60	61	1
24	Tremulous Antennae	8	9	1
24	Troll and Flame	70	71	1
24	Uhluht'c Awakens	76	77	1
	Blood of Prokopius	34	34	0
	Cimmerian Chronicles	16	16	0
	Coffee swillin' analog gamer	33	33	0
	DungeonCurmudgeon	1	1	0
	elves ate my homework	49	49	0
	Fame & Fortune	16	16	0
	MF WARS	10	10	0
	Middenmurk	23	23	0
	Polar Bear Dreams and Stranger Things	20	20	0
	Prime Requisite Games™	25	25	0
	Rocket-Propelled Game	12	12	0
	Romance Monsoon	11	11	0
	RPG Blog II	127	127	0
	Swashbuckler's Hideout	39	39	0
	The Dragon's Eye	2	2	0
	The Hydra's Grotto	15	15	0
	The Incredible Fétide Grigou Rôliste Show	7	7	0
	The Lands of Ara	37	37	0
	The Zonked World of Holmold	1	1	0
	There's a Bugbear in my Kitchen!	39	39	0
	Tower of Zenopus	9	9	0
	Valley of Blue Snails	35	35	0
	Visions of Paradise	7	7	0
	Warning - Mutagenic Substance	61	61	0
	Wilderlands of Runequest	18	18	0
	Dungeon Mistress	58	57	-1

Dead Blogs Removed from List (content removed or inaccessible):
American Barbarica, Bite the Bulette, The Devil's Janitor, The Grumpy Celt, Welcome to Dungeon!