Please realize that I'm not making any claims that this is an exhaustive or well-curated list because (1) I've surely missed some blogs, (2) it may be arguable whether or not some of these blogs are really old school-centric (e.g. "Playing D&D With Porn Stars", "Dungeon Mistress", and "Destination Unknown" only occasionally have old school related stuff, but they still tend to be popular with old school readers), and (3) blogs not on Blogger.com are not included. I'm also not making any claims this list has anything to do with blog quality - in fact, some of my personal favorites didn't even make the list. Anyway, for what it's worth, here's what I got for the old schoolish blogs with 50 followers or more:
| 1 | GROGNARDIA - 628 followers | ||
| 2 | Playing D&D With Porn Stars - 504 followers | ||
| 3 | Jeffs Gameblog - 366 followers | ||
| 4 | LotFP: RPG - 250 followers | ||
| 5 | Beyond the Black Gate - 221 followers | ||
| 6 | ChicagoWiz's RPG Blog - 218 followers | ||
| 7 | Lord of the Green Dragons - 212 followers | ||
| 8 | The Society of Torch, Pole and Rope - 178 followers | ||
| 9 | Monsters and Manuals - 173 followers | ||
| 10 | A Paladin in Citadel - 164 followers | ||
| 11 | B/X Blackrazor - 161 followers | ||
| 12 | Dungeons and Digressions - 158 followers | ||
| 13 | The Hopeless Gamer - 152 followers | ||
| 14 | Bat in the Attic - 146 followers | ||
| 15 | The Underdark Gazette - 145 followers | ||
| 16 | Trollsmyth - 143 followers | ||
| 17 | Greyhawk Grognard - 141 followers | ||
| 18 | Swords Against the Outer Dark - 126 followers | ||
| 19 | The Grand Tapestry - 118 followers | ||
| 20 | Ode to Black Dougal - 117 followers | ||
| 21 | Tankards & Broadswords - 112 followers | ||
| 22 | How to Start a Revolution in 21 Days or Less - 109 followers | ||
| 23 | TEMPLE OF DEMOGORGON - 109 followers | ||
| 24 | Akratic Wizardry - 106 followers | ||
| 25 | OEF - 105 followers | ||
| 26 | Sham's Grog 'n Blog - 99 followers | ||
| 27 | Daddy Grognard - 96 followers | ||
| 28 | Cyclopeatron - 96 followers | ||
| 29 | Joethelawyer's Wondrous Imaginings - 93 followers | ||
| 30 | Telecanter's Receding Rules - 92 followers | ||
| 31 | The Savage AfterWorld - 91 followers | ||
| 32 | PLANET ALGOL - 90 followers | ||
| 33 | Gothridge Manor - 88 followers | ||
| 34 | The Warlock's Home Brew - 83 followers | ||
| 35 | Destination Unknown - 81 followers | ||
| 36 | Havards Blackmoor Blog - 79 followers | ||
| 37 | The Other Side blog - 79 followers | ||
| 38 | Green Skeleton Gaming Guild - 75 followers | ||
| 39 | Uhluht'c Awakens - 74 followers | ||
| 40 | Delta's D&D Hotspot - 73 followers | ||
| 41 | From the Sorcerer's Skull - 73 followers | ||
| 42 | It's okayl Gary sent us. - 72 followers | ||
| 43 | Dungeonmum - 70 followers | ||
| 44 | Save Vs. Poison - 70 followers | ||
| 45 | Troll and Flame - 70 followers | ||
| 46 | THE LAND OF NOD - 69 followers | ||
| 47 | SANDBOX EMPIRE - 65 followers | ||
| 48 | Axe & Hammer - 64 followers | ||
| 49 | Dungeonskull Mountain - 62 followers | ||
| 50 | Grimmhaus - 62 followers | ||
| 51 | Vaults of Nagoh - 61 followers | ||
| 52 | Aeons & Augauries - 59 followers | ||
| 53 | Warning - Mutagenic Substance - 58 followers | ||
| 54 | Sickly Purple Death Ray - 57 followers | ||
| 55 | Dungeon Mistress - 55 followers | ||
| 56 | HUGE RUINED PILE - 53 followers | ||
| 57 | Risus Monkey - 52 followers | ||
| 58 | Weird Worlds of Geoffrey McKinney - 52 followers | ||
| 59 | Bite The Bulette - 50 followers |
92 followers, for what its worth. Still trying to break 100
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Interesting stuff. Thanks for compiling the list. I see a couple of blogs I missed along the way.
ReplyDeleteThose numbers are pretty amazing (and awesome) compared to the early days.
ReplyDelete30! Hell yes!
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Scott's right. Even since I've been hanging around its seems like the "sea level's" been rising and raising all boats.
ReplyDeleteA Paladin in Citadel - 164
ReplyDeleteB/X Blackrazor - 161
Greyhawk Grognard - 141
Akratic Wizardry - 106
Daddy Grognard - 96
I'm too fuzzy to investigate further.
Wow, looks like I just snuck in on that list. Pretty sweet. It is very interesting to see the stats and how quickly ramp up near the top of the list. Lot of bloggy love to spread around, though.
ReplyDelete@Joe and James: Woah! Sorry about those embarrassing omissions! Problem fixed!
ReplyDeleteIf anyone else spots omissions please let me know! There's been a lot of interest in this post, so maybe later in the week I'll make a similar list for all ~150 blogs I've found.
I'm no longer unlucky 13. That now falls to The Hopeless Gamer.
ReplyDeleteMy plan to blog like a ninja is succeeding!
ReplyDeleteI see a few blogs on there that I follow so I guess I can claim that I stood up and was counted! whooohooo! Neat list!
ReplyDeleteI despise the "Following" widget. Save a page offline to a personal database program like Yojimbo on the Mac and then try to read it later and the damn "Friend Connect" widget opens a browser window to connect to the web—which is annoying when you aren't online (and yes, some of us turn off our net connections so we can get things done!).
ReplyDeleteInstead subscribe by RSS feed. Any way to count the RSS followers?
Any way to count the RSS followers?
ReplyDeleteYou can through Google Reader at least. I'd be surprised if other subscription services didn't also provide such information.
Up to 98 now - thanks for the nod. I've unaccountably overlooked your blog till now - sorted now!
ReplyDeleteTrey is certainly right about the "raising all boats" phenomenon.
FWIW my blogroll has 178 blogs on it.
Guess I'd better get blogging some more!
:(
ReplyDeleteAsshat Paladins didn't make the top 59. With only 30 followers and a few articles on Labyrinth Lord, I guess that will probably put me in the 100s.
Oh, well. I must console myself with gaming in awesome-sauce games instead.
:)
Is it your intention to keep this list updated or is it just a snapshot of where we stand now?
ReplyDelete@Matthew S.: I'm sure there are excellent alternatives to the Follower widget, but I haven't put much energy into looking into them. I have no idea how to assess how many people read my blog (or any others) as an RSS feed. I do get the impression, however, that I have ~50+ followers that are using some method other than the Folower widget, as some of my posts will get 150+ hits from "returning users" according to the hit counter.
ReplyDelete@James M.: I made a half-assed attempt to do this with Google Reader, but I couldn't figure it out... That's okay though, may main goal was to find any number to use as a rough proxy for reader interest. I am sure that no matter how you crunch it you will always be king, though, and for good reason!
@Daddy G.: This is just a snapshot and I don't really intend to keep this particular post updated. There seems to be a lot of interest in this post, though, judging from the number of pageloads, so I might periodically post refreshed "rankings". Also, like I said before, I'll aim to post a more comprehensive ranked list of all the OSR blogs I follow.
@ Cyclopeatron: Wow. And now I'm up to 163. Pretty rarified air up there. Thanks for the list!
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