Monday, November 22, 2010

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.

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

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.

Wednesday, November 3, 2010

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.

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Picturing Our Star

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

I HIGHLY RECOMMEND YOU CLICK THE PHOTO TO ENLARGE


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

Monday, November 1, 2010

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...