Approaching 2000

I thought I'd give you a small update of what I've been doing on this aggregator site. By now there are well over 1800 blogs on the rolls here, maybe 1900 distinct ones. Some 950+ are in the english language and mostly about role playing games. There may be a few double listings, but I try to remove these as soon as I spot them.

In addition, I now list 350+ non-english language role playing blogs, and I'm still adding. There are still many French and Portugese ones out there that I have to add as I write, but perhaps once you read this, they are added too. As special categories I added electronic rpg and MMORPG blogs, and miniatures and wargames. The last category also has well over 300 blogs now, in several languages. Many of these are about Warhammer and 40k, but many other games are represented, including the minis of straight RPGs.

I'm happy to see that more and more people find this blogroll (and my real DD2 blog, see above), so welcome to you all. I hope you have as much fun screening what rolls along as do I.

Cheers.

Passed the 1000 mark...

It's a bit cheating though, as only some 800 ish are in the English language. You can find these in the top blog roll, and under the intermittent, deadish and sleepy blogs. Some of the sleepy blogs woke up again, you might see, and some new ones like Zombiecowboy (Welcome!) are so proliferous that I probably move them back up again.

Currently I'm working on the other languages, like Spanish, German and French. There are more than twohundred in that little roll already, and if you speak the language you might like a few of them. It's intriguing to see how there's a lot of Vampire, Cthulhu and Pendragon in the Latin speaking zone. I have wel over 200 now, and more will soon follow.

Also, I added a separate roll for miniature dedicated blogs. As most of the currently 150+ listed are mostly about wargaming, I'm not counting them toward the grand total (yet).

Passed the 700...

As you may have noticed, I passed the 700 RPG blogs. I note that many of you out there don't just write, but write some excellent stuff too. Some of you very, very excellent stuff indeed. And (quite) a few of you have excellent noses for more good stuff - thanks for showing them to me in your blog rolls.

However, as you may also have noticed, the combined output is far too much for any man or woman to read or use. The sheer volume passing in a day on this roll kind of obfuscates the beauty of the individual posts. So, before you flee back to just reading Grognardia and forgetting the rest, a question:

Do you have any good ideas how to bring out this beauty again? How could I best split the blog roll into multiple parts to do more justice to your efforts? Showcasing what's new, and yet not cluttering your senses?

Thanks ahead for your thoughts,
Jake.

Passed the 600 mark

Thanks to Cyclopaetron's listing of Old School Renaissance blogs, and the decision to include long time sleeping blogs, I just passed the 600 blogs. It's a bit hard to call some twohundred of them really active though, but I guess no one person will be able to read all this output anyway. Hope this site helps a bit in finding what you DO want to look at.

I might try dividing the list into two - with deadish blogs in a separate roll.

Other Language RPG Blogs

Although there are a few links in other languages here, you might want to look in your own language, or find something to listen to instead of something to read - on RPGs.

German:   http://rsp-blogs.de/
Italian:      http://www.gdrblogs.it/
Spanish:    http://redderol.blogspot.com/ 
Portugese: http://www.rpg.blog.br/
Danish:     http://alexandria.dk/feeds
Polish:      http://planeta.wieza.org/
Finnish:    look at the sidebar in http://nitessine.wordpress.com
An RPG podcaster network (huge): RPGPodcasts.com

Meanwhile I well passed the 400 mark some time ago. I try to list only active blogs, which have been posted on at least once the last few months. So I'm probably missing a few still. Let me know who!

Aha...

I just stumbled on a post which gives some insight into why applications to the RPG Bloggers Network take a tad long.  And maybe why their board (of dedicated hobbyists, I well suppose) seems a bit frightened of allowing "off topic" content. And why they sort of hide in anonymity.

http://oldguyrpg.blogspot.com/2009/10/dear-rpg-bloggers-network.html

I wasn't actively around then, so I missed the episode where the whole board considered to resign over the issue of banning a blog. Actually I can relate to this sort of turmoil, and how bad that feels. With a few dedicated friends I also ran a gamer group of around a hundred members, and we had a similar problem: a few players who made life hard for the rest. We also were not transparent enough. Or not transparent enough about not intending to be transparent. Our group kind of fell apart because of it. Or more maybe of making a big thing out of things.

Worst though was that we stayed scared for this sort of issue for the next decade. Even if we did not admit it. And that's a shame. I think 99.9% of the hobbyists is bona fide. And just playing. No more. No less. Not worth staying in trauma for.

Just passed the 350 mark

Well, just a day later I passed the 350+ blogs on this roll. As you may notice there are quite a few here that RPG Bloggers at the moment does not have. Then again, they may have a few gems hidden that I haven't found yet. I think I can still find a few more, and that's not counting other languages.

So, keep me posted what I'm missing out on. Or what's waaaay off the mark.

Over 275 blogs in a day

Well, it's way too late - since I have to be up and running in 6 hours again. But this first sunday showed me that there is a zillion blogs on role playing - or closely related to role playing out there. I already found over 275 of you, just following other blogrolls. And I think there are less than fifty who didn't post recently. Most are in english, a couple in spanish, german, italian or french.

So, if you think you're missing, or think someone else who's cool is, let me know in a comment, and I'll add them if I agree!


BTW I did hit on at least two other initiatives to log all the other rpgblogs: Eternal Keep and Old School RPG planet - the last one dedicated to Old School Renaissance.