Map of the RPG Community

[MerricB]

Oh my, yes! I'm not really a video-gamer (the only one I really play is Civilization), and so I'm very much on the outskirts of that hobby. It very much amazes me how much traffic Civfanatics gets, and then there are even more popular sites...

Thanks for doing this, Morrus. It's very interesting - and a wonderful way of depicting it.

(I've just been trying to see the membership numbers of ConSimWorld.org - the main wargaming site - with no luck).

Cheers!

 

[Morrus]

(I've just been trying to see the membership numbers of ConSimWorld.org - the main wargaming site - with no luck).

I don't want to deviate form RPGs too much - that way lies an infinitely increasing amount of work.

 

[Mercurius]

Wow, thanks for this Morrus - what fun.

Out of curiosity, can you tell us how many unique visitors EN World gets daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly? And of those unique visitors, how many are members?

 

[Morrus]

Out of curiosity, can you tell us how many unique visitors EN World gets daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly? And of those unique visitors, how many are members?

Not until we upgrade the server. Counting the stats is too much for the poor thing right now.

 

[MerricB]

I don't want to deviate form RPGs too much - that way lies an infinitely increasing amount of work.

Nor should you. That was mainly for my own curiosity...

Cheers!

 

[Theo R Cwithin]

I've already started doing that; it's a hell of a pain, though! But the plan is a clickable map for navigation of the RPG community (well, at least areas of it with 3000 members or more).

I want to make sure I haven't missed anything, though. There's a rough start on that here (slightly older version of the map, though).

Sweet. That'll be something to really look forward to. I know what a PITA clickable maps can be, so enjoy finishing it up, hehe.

 

[CarlZog]

Well, that makes it much bigger than any RPG site I've ever come across! Then again, board games are much mroe common.

I'd be inclined to exclude it for that reason. Although there's some RPG overlap, BGG is really part of a different world.

 

[Piratecat]

This is awesome! Too much fun. Thanks for doing it. And Carl, I like how BGG stretches out; helps put things in perspective.

 

[nedjer]

very impressive don't suppose it could be populated with monster types matching the characteristics of the 'typical' user/ topics of each site?

Just as a bit of fun . . . you could take the prevalence of certain types of 'indicative' threads and build from that, e.g. massive or frequent threads on DMs' advice, music in RPGs and death of RPGs maybe populated by archmages, wailing banshees and a few ghouls.

 

[Morrus]

OK, it is now an interactive map. Click on the country to jump straight to that website.

Click here to use it!​