March 3, 2010

Popular Topics In The RPG Blogosphere


The Editorial Board* of Open Game Table Vol.2 has been slogging though the nearly 1000 nomination reviews that were handed in by the Peer Reviewers last week. It's tough work, but extremely enjoyable to see all these amazing hidden gems of the RPG blogging community come to light.

Along the way, one of the things we asked the reviewers to do (in addition to commenting and scoring) was to TAG each nomination - in true tradition of blogging we didn't ask them to stick to any preset terms list either. We just wanted them to give each nomination at least two terms that described the post. Well... the graphic above shows all those terms visually.

It's a feast for your mind's eye. Over 500 terms are up there that the Peer Reviewers spontaneously came up with.

Not surprisingly... GM ADVICE was #1.

A complete listing of ALL the terms, ordered by frequency is available here (if you are interested).


* The OGT Editorial Board is made up of Jonathan Jacobs (me), Berin Kinsman, Kameron Franklin, Tony Law, and Ben McFarland.


** The above image was created using Wordle, a great little app for visualizing the prevalence of words.

3 comments:

  1. That's a great image. Thanks for doing that!

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  2. Glad you enjoyed it Ken. Thanks for stopping by!

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  3. It's interesting..."Player Advice" is #2, and "RPG Theory" is #3. I find that telling as well.

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