In my quest to find data points on how many D&D players there are out there I stumbled upon this " The tabletop gamers’ survey ...

I was fascinated by Troy Press recent piece "D&D Rules, According to Past Players" based on a general survey they did which f...

Troy Press published a piece "D&D Rules, According to Past Players" based on a survey they did - and I am fascinated by the ...

tl;dr: a tale of recovering a piece of blogging community infrastructure from bad decisions and technology failure. Regular readers will ha...

Since the Endies were kicked off by Lady Tabletop, I am going to include those bits in my usual end of year. I am stealing Luck Roll's f...

On Ye Olde Question of 'is the OSR dead' but this time with some data - based on community participation in jams and challenges and ...

tl;dr: continues the stable trend since 2023 - 5e still 2/3 of campaigns, very little sign of change anywhere. So on the one hand, this is a...

Looking at the second block of polls that Grognardia ran - "when were you first introduced to roleplaying games?" and "how ol...

Since Grognardia, cornerstone of OSR blogging, did a bunch of how many, how often and when did/do you play polls (see Musings on Poll Result...

2024 was a great year for gaming - down from last years banner year but I do not feel in any way short-changed. On running games Ducal Ho...

All praise to The Scholomance who just released a delightful anonymised dataset of a big survey they ran at the turn of the year. Their init...

Meetup jacked up its subscription costs (174%!) so I cancelled my own sub, our game group as a whole sees no value in paying for one and the...

Larian Studios, makers of Baldurs Gate 3, bless their transparent little hearts, have released another update to their player stats - now af...

tl;dr: very stable on 2023 - 5e still 2/3 of campaigns, Traveler muscles onto non-D&D leaderboard, absolute number of campaigns down 50%...

Ben Milton of Questing Beast did some neat work tagging kickstarter projects as OSR or not and played out some of the trends over time - se...

A curious thought came to me - how much of each edition have I played? It feels like I have been playing a lot of 5e recently - have I in th...

tl;dr: reviewing time records from an urban/wilderness campaigns highlight how time is the key resource in cities Nudged into action by Vla...

We ran another of our open table events recently and got a bunch of folk in for it. We use Meetup as the 'on-ramp' and can reliably ...

tl;dr: at the limit of venue capacity, how to spin out another venue to avoid turning people away? We had to do our first turn-aways from o...

tl;dr: frustrated salt post. Why publish spoiled data? DndBeyond published an article "2023 Unrolled: A Look Back at a Year of Adventu...