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Blogging: Elmcat maps the TTRPG blogosphere

November 29, 2025

Blogger elmcat has created an interactive map of TTRPG blogs, showing relationships between hundreds of blogs. It is quite cool, and I recommend both the blog post and interactive map itself (takes a few seconds to load).

I was positively surprised to see Attronarch's Athenaeum is in the top 5%!

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Blogging: Looking back at 2024

January 19, 2025

I launched Attronarch's Athenaeum in March 2022 as a place to document session reports from the Conquering the Barbarian Altanis campaign set in the Wilderlands. Almost three years later and I have published around 500 blog posts. That... was not an initial idea!

Even more amusingly, session reports constitute only one quarter of all published posts! Another quarter comes from annual RPG a Day and Character Creation Challenge challenges. The rest is a mish-mash of resources, news, and whatever happens to be on my mind that I feel is worth sharing.

In April 2024 I have added GoatCounter, ultra-simple privacy-respecting analytics, to the blog so I get an idea if anyone is reading it at all. Since then GoatCounter had logged 12 000 visits. I am happy with that, even if I made a thousand or so of those visits. (I regularly use my own blog to remind myself of what happened in what session or use the tools I shared!)

Five most visited blog posts in 2024 were:

21 Lessons learned after running 100 sessions. I am happy that my reflections on running a long term campaign resonated with so many people.
Swords & Wizardry: 400 Pregenerated Characters and 288 Equipment Packs. I made these to be used, and am delighted to hear from people who are benefiting from them.
Swords & Wizardry: White Box Editions. Aftering explaining differences between Swords & Wizardry editions one to many time on Discord and Reddit I decided to write a long form blog post that I could link to instead.
Swords & Wizardry: Which Monster Book to Pick. This post is an example of what happens when I wake up with a question and then share a distilled answer.
News: Fight On! issue 15 now available. Return of the legendary OSR zine drew a lot of attention! I hope people will follow new and updated Fight On! website.

Besides the above, I'd like to highlight three posts that haven't received as many visits:

Fight On: The Darkness Beneath Megadungeon. This is an index to the megadungeon levels published in Fight On! zine.
RPG Blog Carnival: Wondrous Weapons and Damning Dweomers Round-Up Post. Through September I hosted the RPG Blog Carnival focused on magical items. I created seventy magical weapons that can be easily used in any old-school D&D game.
Wilderlands One-Shots: The Survivor of Thracia. I don't mind our session reports having low hits. After all, they are mostly for us in the game and are not novelised for ease of consumption. This post is a bit different, since I also go into details about preparing an original Dungeons & Dragons one-shot with Caverns of Thracia module, something others might find useful.