Who is the GLOGosphere? 2026 Edition

In 2019, Anne wrote a partial survey of the big names and blogs related to the GLOG scene. Seven years on, the landscape is a bit different, and you may be interested to see what it's like now.2016 saw the publication of Arnold's hack, which won many dabblers and champions. By 2020, there was a reliable population of gloggers on the OSR discord server, which grew to become very active in the early days of the pandemic. As a design scene, it started to see more second- and third-order characteristics and shared language. Some details from Goblin Guts or Many Rats on Sticks saw lots of copycats, others were left behind or iterated on. This is when the glog scene acquired a reputation for focusing on the creation of classes to the exclusion of other pursuits, and for affected a madcap and silly air. Honestly, I think the post-G+ OSR scene had a lot of silliness, and the glog reputation for it might just be downstream of the volume of the work the scene produced at that time.By about…