RPG Survey Round-Up

It might be worthwhile to have a single thread that gathers links to the many gaming polls and surveys on EN World. Add the links to posts in this thread when you get the chance . . .

Please, answer the survey questions as they appear in the following threads -

1. Do RPGs' Wargaming Aspects Overshadow RPing?

2. Do You Use Your RPG Rules as Written?

3. Have You Introduced New People to RPGs?

4. Is There Much Age Difference In Your RPGing Group?

5. Do You Only Play D&D For Your RPGing?

6. Does Adulthood Change the RPG Experience Much?

7. Do You Prefer a Humanocentric RPG Setting?

8. In RPGs, Should PCs Be Better Than NPCs By Default?

9. Do You Prefer a Cinematic Combat System?

10. Do You RPG More Than Once Per Week?

11. Is D&D Your Primary RPG?

12. Is D&D Your Favorite RPG?

13. Is 3.x Your Favorite Version of D&D?

14. Do You Prefer 4 Or More Players (+ DM) When RPGing?

15. Do You Prefer to Play One of the Four Primary Base Classes (Clr, Ftr, Rog, Wiz)?

16. Do You Prefer to Play a Human PC When RPGing?

17. Do You Often Get Beyond Mid-Level Play When RPGing?

18. Do Adjustments To Core RAW Often Meet With Resistance In Your RPGing Group?

19. Do You Sometimes Purchase RPG Books Just To Read (Not For Play Purposes)?

20. In Addition To RPGs, Do You Play Wargames (Including Tactical Miniatures Games)?

21. Do You Consider Miniatures Painting And/Or Collecting Part Of Your RPG Hobby?

22. The DM's Percentage

23. The Gaming Ideal

24. Everyone, Tell us about your games, please!


Thanks!

Mark said:

Please, answer the survey questions as they appear in the following threads

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I answered many, but at some point I got bored by those "yes or no" polls. Maybe if we could know what you are trying to figure out with all of them... (Sorry if it looks like trolling.)

I think Mark deserves something for owning the front page of the General forums.

I've answered all of these. I think there's something to be said for a poll which forces you to intuit a Yes/No answer.

I hope you'll fill us in on how you're using the info Mark.

WtF?!

I think I'm going to make my own and link all the threads I posted in. And I want everyone to reply to them so them dominate the front page.

I never put someone on ignore before...

Jaws said:

(. . .) I want everyone to reply to them so them dominate the front page.

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Answering polls doesn't bump threads.

Jaws said:

WtF?!

I think I'm going to make my own and link all the threads I posted in. And I want everyone to reply to them so them dominate the front page.

I never put someone on ignore before...

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Wow, what's to be upset about? I don't think Mark is doing this to "dominate the front page."

I do admit I'm curious if all this data is being gathered for a larger purpose, and what that might be.

Thornir Alekeg said:

Wow, what's to be upset about? I don't think Mark is doing this to "dominate the front page."

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He may have been joking.

Thornir Alekeg said:

I do admit I'm curious if all this data is being gathered for a larger purpose, and what that might be.

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Just curious, actually. Polls on EN World rarely see more than a few hundred participants, so the data is such a small sample of the supposed 40,000 members (and the supposed million plus RPGers worldwide) that it's hard to take it too much to heart. However, it is all very interesting, to me anyway, so I ask away with my little questions and absorb the answers and perspectives as best I can. I'm sure it all influences me and my own decisions in the long run, FWIW.


I'm surprised other people haven't added links to their own polls (or polls they have followed) in this thread, too. I think it would be more interesting for everyone if most polls started getting 1,000+ members responding to them. If ten percent of the membership of EN World regularly responded to polls, I'd be really impressed. Anyway, this thread was just an attempt to bring the polls I started (and those of others) to more people's attention.

A few have a few hundred votes and others not as much. I wonder how many of the 40,000 registered members are still active?

Mark said:

I'm surprised other people haven't added links to their own polls (or polls they have followed) in this thread, too.

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Well, in my case it's for a few reasons:

1. I don't know how.

2. The polls I've run (what year did you start playing, how old are you now/were you when you started, what edition do you play, a few others) are now a year or more old and thus buried deep in the dead-thread pile. And I don't have search any more; I'm a bad little enworlder and let my CSA run out.

I like the idea of a master polls list however, though it'd be nice if it could be broken down into categories (demographic polls, playstyle polls, DM polls, etc.)

Lanefan