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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 7608532" data-attributes="member: 29398">A glance at the stats they publish here every so often as to what's being played in the online tabletops (e.g. Fantasy Ground, etc.) gives at least a bit of insight into what's actually being played; and though it's an open question as to how reflective these numbers are of the overall community, they're pretty much all we have to go by.&nbsp; If - and I know this is a big jump, but I'll try it anyway - one can assume people are more or less playing their favourite edition or system, then it would seem to generally go in order 3e, 4e, 1e, 0e, with 2e sometimes nowhere to be found.Lump PF in with 3e and its lead here becomes quite large.&nbsp; Lump some close-hewn OSR games (DCCRPG, Hackmaster, et al) in with 1e (and-or 0e?) and they'd about match 4e.&nbsp; I'm not aware of any systems that are as closely derived from 4e as these other examples are from their respective editions.Another consideration is that end-of-life-era 2e is so much polymorphed from release-era 2e that they're almost two completely different systems - it would be interesting to know from the 2e voters here whether you're voting for 2e as first released or 2e as it ended up becoming, or something in between.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 7608532, member: 29398"] A glance at the stats they publish here every so often as to what's being played in the online tabletops (e.g. Fantasy Ground, etc.) gives at least a bit of insight into what's actually being played; and though it's an open question as to how reflective these numbers are of the overall community, they're pretty much all we have to go by. If - and I know this is a big jump, but I'll try it anyway - one can assume people are more or less playing their favourite edition or system, then it would seem to generally go in order 3e, 4e, 1e, 0e, with 2e sometimes nowhere to be found. Lump PF in with 3e and its lead here becomes quite large. Lump some close-hewn OSR games (DCCRPG, Hackmaster, et al) in with 1e (and-or 0e?) and they'd about match 4e. I'm not aware of any systems that are as closely derived from 4e as these other examples are from their respective editions. Another consideration is that end-of-life-era 2e is so much polymorphed from release-era 2e that they're almost two completely different systems - it would be interesting to know from the 2e voters here whether you're voting for 2e as first released or 2e as it ended up becoming, or something in between. [/QUOTE]

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