Most Popular RPG's?

The top six places at minimum will all be variants of D&D.

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Hi. Please note that "games" means number of games from all time that are still not deleted, so they are still technically going on. And "players" means people who are signed up to all of those games.

>>51221345
Also, 4fags BTFO.

>>51221345
I'm a little surprised Shadowrun and Traveller don't rank higher

>>51221364

>Popularity = Quality

>>51221345

Roll20 is heavily skewed towards games that require or benefit from a full virtual tabletop. Things like D&D would still be the most popular, but the numbers for other games are likely to be relatively lower since a lot of them gain no benefit from being played on Roll20.

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>>51221419
> Plebs are just too dumb to enjoy my system
Stay delusional, 4fag.

>>51221306
icv2 publishes a ranking twice a year, top 5 only though.
>http://icv2.com/articles/markets/view/35144/top-5-rpgs-spring-2016
is the last we got

>>51221458

Alternatively, a game that caters well to a specific niche isn't innately worse than a game with more broad appeal. 4e is a niche game, but it still has a healthy playerbase who appreciate what the system has to offer.

>>51221402
SR ranks high, Traveller is old and classic Sci-Fi isn't hip these days.

>>51221306
The way it works is that half the people play D&D, while the other half play a wide assortment of games that don't amass to any significant percentage by themselves. These other games have so few players, that as little as five hundred people is a dramatic change for them.

You can sort of see that reflected in how some anons proselytize as much as they can, effectively advertising for free in order to get more people playing their games. They're desperate for any new blood, because the list of games that have faded into obscurity is quite long and it can take as little as a single year for a game to lose almost the entirety of its players.

The perception of this changes in some countries and regions, where one game might have firmer roots, but in a worldwide perspective the only game you could really classify as "popular" is D&D, specifically the 3rd, 4th, and primarily the 5th edition.

>>51221566
>The way it works is that half the people play D&D, while the other half play a wide assortment of games that don't amass to any significant percentage by themselves.
...in the USA. not quite so in europe.

>>51221620
>The perception of this changes in some countries and regions, where one game might have firmer roots, but in a worldwide perspective the only game you could really classify as "popular" is D&D, specifically the 3rd, 4th, and primarily the 5th edition.

http://www.gencon.com/forums/9-event-organizers-gms/topics/1097-high-demand-games-from-2016

This is a list of the most in demand rpgs for gencon. I assume it's based on actual requests and last year's event sales.

>Call of Cthulhu - 6th & 7th edition in basically equal measure, but Dark Ages & 5th are pretty high, too
>Star Wars - almost entirely for the new FFG editions, but Saga has a decent unserved demand, too
>Dungeons & Dragons - setting aside the RPGA/Baldman/Adventurers' League stuff, it's almost all for 5th & 1st
>Shadowrun, 5th edition
>Savage Worlds, Deluxe edition
>Dungeon Crawl Classics
>Numenera
>Trail of Cthulhu
>Paranoia, 2nd & XP editions, mainly
>7th Sea - it's all about the new (2nd) edition
>Dread
>Dresden Files - the Fate edition, not a home-brew
>Hero, 5th edition
>Fate - mostly Core, but reasonable demand for Accelerated
>Eclipse Phase
>Sentinel Comics RPG
>Dark Heresy
>13th Age
>Mouse Guard
>Night's Black Agents
>Delta Green
>Firefly
>Dungeon World
>The Strange
>Mutants & Masterminds, 3rd edition
>Toon
>Kobolds Ate My Baby
>The One Ring
>Outbreak: Undead
>Mutant Crawl Classics
>Cypher System
>Achtung! Cthulhu
>Dragon Age
>Fantasy Age
>QAGS
>Luchador: Way of the Mask
>TORG Eternity
>Gamma World - split pretty evenly between 4th & 7th edition

Obviously a lot of these are newer games, but keep in mind these are con games so you've got a lot of things people just want to try (either because it's new or not often run by their group etc) or things that work well in one-shots. Lots of these are flavour of the monthy. Not sure how else to get real stats for this, but I think this is probably the best answer. BGG might have some stats too tho.

Really best answer is 5th ed, Fantasy Age(titansgrave, dragon age etc), Dungeon World, Fate, Star Wars ffg, uhh.. shadowrun maybe? 20th anniversary world of darkness is probably doing ok too and savage worlds is always popular.

>>51221931

>Luchador: Way of the Mask

I need to have a look at this

>>51221345
I'm happy CoC got so high.

>>51221931
>Dungeon World

Not a game.

>Dread

Also not a game.

>Fate - mostly Core, but reasonable demand for Accelerated

Please.

>>51222387

Oh goody, I love this stupid argument.

Can you provide us with your definition of a game, please?

>>51222432
not DW, not Dread, not FATE

>>51223241

Man, you're not even trying.

>>51222432
>Can you provide us with your definition of a game, please?

None of these are games because the mechanics only exist to reinforce the group's freeform powerwanking.

If you define playing a game as roleplaying and rolling dice but completely ignoring the dice (thus they might as well not be present other than lending false legitimacy to the players' actions) then I guess these games are games. To the rest of us, they are free-forming trash that makes free-form RPers think their aspergers-infused "campaigns" are legitimate RPGs.

>>51223638

So you can't pose a consistent definition of a game that excludes them as games?

Good to know you're just talking bullshit purely based on your preferences and dislike of a different playstyle.

(And before you call me a butthurt FATEfag, I don't even like ruleslite games that much. I just think shitting on people who do and trying to argue they don't count as games just makes you kinda pathetic)

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>>51221345
>d20 games dominate roll20

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>>51221931
Which Dresden Files, though? Fate 3.0 or Fate Accelerated?

P.S. can confirm DFAE is great.

>>51221306
There is D&D, everything else is barely relevant.

>>51221688
D&D (and 3.5finder) seems dominate most of Europe. Germany is the only exception I know.

>>51221566
I imagine a lot of people play D&D, and branch out to try other things once in a while.