MAPS (No One Loves You Like I love You)

Yeah yeah yeah... I know. Late to the bandwagon, again. But it has come to my attention that Elmcat has mapped the blogosphere!

The Big Red Dot is Grognardia, the slightly less big dot is someone called "Jeff"

Elmcat explains their methodology in this post https://elmc.at/mapping-the-blogosphere/. So far as I can tell (and please, do your own research as I am an absolute dolt) they have catalogued and then visually represented the frequency with which blogs link to one another. This establishes 5 RPG blog communities, as follows:

• Community 0, featuring most of the GLOGOSPHERE. Goblin Punch and Coins & Scrolls rank 2nd and 2rd here, but weirdly the "top blog" is Patrick Stuart's False Machine
• Community 1 I originally thought was centred on the Alexandrian but apparently is led by Critical Hits. No, me neither!  
• Community 2 is (I think) the largest and seems to centre on Chris McDowall's Bastionland, but more recently Prismatic Wasteland's Prismatic Wastes  has emerged as the fulcrum.
• Community 3 is centred on the elder statesman of the OSR, Grognardia
• Community 4 is Tenkar's Tavern and a lot of blogs with which I'm unfamiliar   

I'm not sure what any of this really means but the image is beautiful and clearly took a great deal of time and effort to set up. It's fun to look a the changes over time: going back to 2015, when I started this blog, the graphic was far less dense! Also amusing to see the map fluctuate and change in the time since its publication, as Xaosseed notes in this post:

https://seedofworlds.blogspot.com/2025/12/many-faces-of-osr.html

Have a look for your own blog if you haven' t already. It's really useful to see who is linking to you the most (thanks, Xaosseeed!), and who you're linking to the most (you're welcome, Goblin Punch!). 

The aforementioned Xaosseed continues their tireless support for the OSR community with the r/OSR blogroll on Reddit. Please post your blog there if you are a Reddit user and have a look at the other posts shared:

https://www.reddit.com/r/osr/comments/1pl1k0x/osr_blogroll_12th_to_18th_december_2025/

Finally, a bit of archaeology: have a look at this post from the G+ days:

https://falsemachine.blogspot.com/2017/03/mapping-osr.html