Black Dunes of Mars

A mind-blowing photo from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. I love Mars.

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Obviously I haven't been posting much lately. A glass of water got spilled on my computer at home, so I was out of action for a while. On top of that I've been unusually busy with work. I may not be posting much until after the holidays.

Horror in the Sandbox I: Learning From Failed Runs of Raggi’s Modules

I like creepy and cosmically horrific kind of stuff. Like a lot of DMs, however, I've had problems in the past with getting players to make the stupid decisions that would lead them into creepy and cosmically horrific situations. How many of you DMs can recall sessions where you designed an awesome creepfest, only to have the players (wisely) get the hell out at the first sign of weird danger? It's hard to fault players for this kind of reaction, really - I can't blame them for not wanting their characters to step into an uncontrollable situation that would likely result in death. This is especially a problem in more sandboxy campaigns, where the players always have the choice to move on. Obviously, this is less of a problem in railroads or one-shots.

It's been very interesting over the last few months to read reports of players reacting exactly like this to the new horror-themed Lamentations of the Flame Princess modules. When some experienced DMs have tried to integrate modules like Tower of the Stargazer or Death Frost Doom into ongoing campaigns the players got wise pretty fast and turned tail, either leaving the module unplayed, or forcing the DM into railroading mode. Here are some quotes:

“With the quick death of their new hireling just entering the tower, they knew that this was a deadly place. After exploring the second level of the tower, they made their way up a flight of stairs, discovering some blood trickling out of a keyhole. They checked for traps but remained uncertain about what to do next, when Wagstaff commanded Olav to try the door. Olav the Dwarf was afraid after seeing what had happened to the last guy, and declined. The porter, poor fellow, was asked and also declined. Wagstaff suggested they all draw lots, but the porter didn’t want to be included. He finally relented that he would include himself in a drawing for a large bonus sum. This was too much for Wagstaff and they decided to call off the whole business, leaving the tower!"
  - ze bulette on running Tower of the Stargazer

“They wanted nothing to do with the site, with its treasure, or with any investigations thereof. It seemed like the stupidest idea in the world to go anywhere near the place, and they only did because I railroaded them.”
  - Alexis on running Death Frost Doom

“I'm a little late to this thread, but I found that I had the same experience with The Grinding Gear. The party took one look at situation and wanted to keep on trucking.”
   - Blaise in response to Alexis’ post

“Ironically, Raggi's 3 Brides does a better job of providing the motivation/plots than his other modules. You have to work really hard to integrate his modules, almost rewriting them in terms of plot/story to make them work.”
  - ChicagoWiz in response to Alexis’ post

“The "motivation" part of the module (of all my modules, really) is intentionally vague, because the point of a module is to be integrated into the whole of a campaign, not stick out like a sore thumb...”
  - James Edward Raggi IV in response to Alexis’ post

Alexis' original post at the Tao of D&D was a stinging criticism of Death Frost Doom at many levels, but most of the post's comments dwelt on whether it was the responsibility of the DM or the module writer to provide the motivation for PCs to walk into deadly and nightmarish situations. My opinion on the matter is that, while ultimately it is the DM's responsibility to make a campaign fun and thematically compelling, if someone is going to charge money for a module they should at least provide some options for the DM to work with in terms of motivation - treasure, escape, stopping a threat, whatever... For instance, I can write an old school location-based module called Nebraska, but what's the point if there's no compelling reason to run an adventure there? I think the challenge of writing a location-based module is inventing a place that is interesting and rewarding for players to visit. The players should WANT to go there. So how do you cultivate this kind of inherent motivation while also adding horror to the mix?

I pose the question:  

How do YOU motivate players to willingly walk into weird and horrific situations?

I have some of my own playtested ideas I'll outline in a subsequent post, but I am curious to hear about experiences and insights from anyone else who has thought about this.

D&D 4e: Product or Subscription Service? Welcome to the 4e Tax!

One of the huge appeals of 4e is that it's more than a game - it's a self-contained gaming community. Sure, that community is run by an unresponsive dictator in Washington (state, that is), but it is undeniably cool that you have the option of porting your character between Encounters run by different DMs all working in a shared universe. It's also nice to know that if a game store is nearby you'll always have gaming buddies at least one night a week. This is pretty awesome actually.

Things have changed slightly in the last few days, however. Now if you want to build and maintain a D&D character you will be required to subscribe to the online D&D website. It appears that the dictator has now started charging taxes! The 4e tax!

Accordingly, cries of anguish have been erupting from the blogs and forums in response to Hasbro / WotC's announcement that they will no longer be supporting their downloadable stand-alone character building software. If you want to build an official D&D 4e character you now have to use Hasbro's online D&D Insider subscription service. Greg at Weirdlands of Xhuul has posted more details and advanced screen shots here.

For those of us who like more traditional pencil-and-paper RPGs the obvious response is "So what? Can't you still use your old books, roll up your own characters, and just play?" Apparently things aren't that simple... When I posed the question to WickedMurph of the Over the Misty Mountain blog he said:

Well, the problem here is that you really kinda DO need the online tool. They have released so much errata and shit that the Character Builder is pretty much the only way to keep it all straight.

What's more annoying is that Character Builder is still a good way to release rules. All the things I said about it before are still true - it's a cheap, effective and unprecedented way to publish a game.

I don't really play 4e so none of this directly affects me, but I think it's very interesting to watch "D&D" evolving under Hasbro. It's fascinating how what was once a simple pencil-n-paper roleplaying game is now evolving into a totally novel sort of online fee-based gaming service. Between maintaining compatibility with formal Encounter "league play", dealing with complex rulesets, and keeping up with errata and rule updates players are pretty much forced to buy into the online subscription service.

Picturing Our Star

The surface of the sun. From the NASA APOD website - one of my daily reads...

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Spicules: Jets on the Sun

Credit: K. Reardon (Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri, INAF) IBIS, DST, NSO Explanation: Imagine a pipe as wide as a state and as long as the Earth. Now imagine that this pipe is filled with hot gas moving 50,000 kilometers per hour. Further imagine that this pipe is not made of metal but a transparent magnetic field. You are envisioning just one of thousands of young spicules on the active Sun. Pictured above is one of the highest resolution image yet of these enigmatic solar flux tubes. Spicules line the above frame of solar active region 11092 that crossed the Sun last month, but are particularly evident converging on the sunspot on the lower left. Time-sequenced images have recently shown that spicules last about five minutes, starting out as tall tubes of rapidly rising gas but eventually fading as the gas peaks and falls back down to the Sun. What determines the creation and dynamics of spicules remains a topic of active research.

234 Roleplaying Blogs Ranked by Follower

In response to requests I've received, here is an updated listing of 234 old schoolish roleplaying blogs ranked by follower. The follower numbers are from 1 November 2010. You can find links to all of these blogs HERE.

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 not on the list and you want to be included next time, please send me the link. Sorry, I won't go back and update this post when I receive new links! (3) Blogroll aggregator sites were not included.

RANK	BLOG	FOLLOWERS
1	GROGNARDIA	685
2	Playing D&D With Porn Stars	538
3	Jeffs Gameblog	385
4	LotFP: RPG	274
5	Beyond the Black Gate	247
6	ChicagoWiz's RPG Blog	228
7	Lord of the Green Dragons	223
8	A Paladin In Citadel	198
9	The Society of Torch, Pole and Rope	196
10	B/X BLACKRAZOR	190
11	Dungeons and Digressions	178
12	Monsters and Manuals	177
13	The Hopeless Gamer	175
14	I SEE LEAD PEOPLE	168
15	The Underdark Gazette	165
16	Trollsmyth	161
17	Bat in the Attic	159
18	Greyhawk Grognard	158
19	Cyclopeatron	152
20	Swords Against the Outer Dark	142
21	The Gallery: Russ Nicholson	141
22	The Lair of the Evil DM	139
23	The Tao of D&D	134
24	Akratic Wizardry	130
25	RPG Blog II	127
26	Ode to Black Dougal	126
27	HeroPress	125
28	The Grand Tapestry	124
29	The RPG Corner	122
30	How to Start a Revolution in 21 Days or Less	120
31	Old Guard Gaming Accoutrements	119
32	Tankards & Broadswords	118
33	Daddy Grognard	116
34	TEMPLE OF DEMOGORGON	116
35	Destination Unknown	114
36	OEF	112
37	HUGE RUINED PILE	111
38	The Keep on the Gaming Lands	110
39	Telecanter's Receding Rules	105
40	Back in '81	103
41	Sham's Grog 'n Blog	102
42	Joethelawyer's Wondrous Imaginings	98
43	The Savage AfterWorld	97
44	From the Sorcerer's Skull	96
45	Gothridge Manor	96
46	PLANET ALGOL	95
47	The Other Side blog	92
48	The Warlock's Home Brew	91
49	"It's okay; Gary sent us."	89
50	THE LAND OF NOD	87
51	Dungeonmum	86
52	Green Skeleton Gaming Guild	86
53	Havards Blackmoor Blog	86
54	Delta's D&D Hotspot	84
55	I Waste The Buddha With My Crossbow	84
56	Axe & Hammer	77
57	Dungeonskull Mountain	77
58	Uhluht'c Awakens	77
59	Save Vs. Poison	76
60	Risus Monkey	75
61	A Hamsterish Hoard of Dungeons and Dragons	74
62	Sickly Purple Death Ray	74
63	Troll and Flame	71
64	Aeons & Augauries	68
65	SANDBOX EMPIRE	67
66	Discourse and Dragons	66
67	The Blog That Time Forgot	66
68	The Nine and Thirty Kingdoms	66
69	Savage Swords of Athanor	65
70	Vaults of Nagoh	65
71	What a horrible night to have a curse...	65
72	Carjacked Seraphim	64
73	Grimmhaus	64
74	Tenkar's Tavern	63
75	The Wasted Lands	61
76	Warning - Mutagenic Substance	61
77	Weird Worlds of Geoffrey McKinney	61
78	aldeboran	58
79	Back to the Dungeon!	57
80	Dungeon Mistress	57
81	Fabled Lands	54
82	Roles, Rules, and Rolls	54
83	Rule of the Dice	53
84	The Metal Earth	53
85	Tower of the Archmage	53
86	EXONAUTS!	52
87	World of Wonder	52
88	In Places Deep	51
89	Hill Cantons	50
90	Terminal Space	50
91	elves ate my homework	49
92	FightingFantasist	48
93	Sword and Board	48
94	Superhero Necromancer	47
95	The Frothy Friar	47
96	The Omnipotent Eye	47
97	Mandragora: The Mandrake March	46
98	Castle Dragonscar	45
99	Drawings & Dragons	44
100	Tales from the Flaming Faggot	44
101	Maximum Rock & Role Playing	43
102	Reviews from R'lyeh	43
103	The Delve	43
104	Old School Heretic	42
105	The Library: Retro and Classic Fantasy Games.	42
106	THE WHEEL OF SAMSARA	42
107	Unofficial Games	42
108	In Like Flynn	41
109	Like Being Read To From Dictionaries	41
110	Sorcery & Super Science!	41
111	Lawful Indifferent	39
112	Swashbuckler's Hideout	39
113	There's a Bugbear in my Kitchen!	39
114	Asshat Paladins	38
115	Carto Cacography	38
116	Rustfoot	38
117	malevolent & benign	37
118	Semper Initiativus Unum	37
119	The Lands of Ara	37
120	Threads of Adventure!	36
121	Jasoomian Dreams	35
122	Places to Go, People to Be	35
123	Shouting Into The Void	35
124	Spell Card!	35
125	The Contemptible Cube of Quazar	35
126	Valley of Blue Snails	35
127	Blood of Prokopius	34
128	chirine's workbench	34
129	Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd edition	33
130	Coffee swillin' analog gamer	33
131	SWORD & SHIELD	32
132	Swords of Minaria	32
133	Age of Ravens	31
134	Forgotten Runes	31
135	The Moldy Vale	31
136	Archive of the Rotted Moon	30
137	Oubliette Magazine	30
138	Appendix N	29
139	Crawdads and Dragons	29
140	Have dice, will travel…	29
141	Saturday Night Sandbox	29
142	Swords of Abandon	29
143	5 Stone Games	28
144	For A Fistful Of Coppers	28
145	The Book of Worlds	28
146	The Doomed Wastelands	27
147	The Grumpy Old Troll	27
148	A Wizard in a bottle	25
149	El RagnaBlog	25
150	Prime Requisite Games™	25
151	The Vorpal Spork	25
152	The Weirdlands of Xhuul	25
153	Beyond the Wall	24
154	SAVE OR DIE!	24
155	Some King's Kent	24
156	Middenmurk	23
157	The Polyhedral Dicebag	23
158	Kingdoms in Trevail	22
159	Mike's Amazing RPG Fun Pad	22
160	Trollish Delver	22
161	DUNGEON ADVENTURES	21
162	KOK'ed Dice	21
163	Tombs of Horrors	21
164	ENCOUNTER	20
165	Polar Bear Dreams and Stranger Things	20
166	Stocking The Dungeon	19
167	Where'd my Vorpal Sword Go?	19
168	gnotions	18
169	Wilderlands of Runequest	18
170	Bloody 20s	17
171	Errant	17
172	Henchman Abuse	17
173	Iron Rationales	17
174	Let's Make Believe	17
175	Cimmerian Chronicles	16
176	Fame & Fortune	16
177	My RPG characters	16
178	New Fish In An Old School	16
179	Redbeard's Ravings	16
180	The Badger King's Den	16
181	Unfrozen caveman dice-chucker	16
182	The 25 Mile Hex	15
183	The Hydra's Grotto	15
184	Countdown to Game Time	14
185	Gaming All Over The Place	14
186	Grevious-Injury	14
187	Ramblings of a Gentleman Gamer	14
188	No Signal!	13
189	Bugbears for Breakfast	12
190	Cthulhu's Library	12
191	No School Like The Old School	12
192	Rocket-Propelled Game	12
193	Tempora Mutantur	12
194	AD&D Grognard	11
195	Attack Plan R	11
196	Creative Mountain Games	11
197	Romance Monsoon	11
198	The Old Forest	11
199	Embrace the Dungeon!	10
200	MF WARS	10
201	BigDungeon	9
202	GAME SNOB	9
203	Hack & Slash	9
204	MORE & BIGGER LOOT	9
205	Notes From Under the Kyak	9
206	Quickly, Quietly, Carefully	9
207	Tales from the Dusty Vault	9
208	Teleleli	9
209	The City of Iron	9
210	The Realm of Zhu	9
211	Tower of Zenopus	9
212	Tremulous Antennae	9
213	Lances to Lasers - A gaming blog	8
214	O RPG da Vida Real	8
215	The Blue Gnoll	8
216	The Paradigm Traveler	8
217	Beacon	7
218	In a Dark Cell	7
219	Musings from Myern	7
220	Over the Misty Mountain	7
221	The Incredible Fétide Grigou Rôliste Show	7
222	Visions of Paradise	7
223	The Burning Wastes	6
224	The Dragon's Musing	6
225	Digital Orc	5
226	of Pedantry	5
227	Penguin Overlord	4
228	Rather Gamey	3
229	The Purple Wurm	3
230	Knightvision Games - Two Knights, One Vision	2
231	The Dragon's Eye	2
232	DungeonCurmudgeon	1
233	The Zonked World of Holmold	1

Blogs left out (due to error or late update). Sorry 'bout that!

Apprentice Of Old School - 5 followers (German)
Old School Psionics - 7 followers
Redwald RPG - 5 followers

Out of respect to our friends using WordPress, here's a list of excellent RPG blogs I was unable to rank:

A character for every game

Ancient Vaults & Eldritch Secrets

Swords & Dorkery

HEYMIKEY.ORG

Joeskythedungeonbrawler's Blog

Lord Kilgore

Lost Papers of Tsojcanth

Mule Abides

NeoGrognard

Paul's Blog

Robertson Games

Rolang's Creeping Doom

Tales of the Rambling Bumblers

The Dwarf and the Basilisk

The Red Box Blog  Your Dungeon is Suck   Zombie World משחק בתיאוריה‬

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!

Cthulhu in South Park

I'm not a TV guy, so sorry if I'm late to the party on this one...