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Message: <blockquote data-quote="aramis erak" data-source="post: 7015095" data-attributes="member: 6779310">let's see.. spring 2016 top 5 seller RPGs from ICV2...1 Dungeons and Dragons (Wizards of the Coast)2 Pathfinder (Paizo)3 Star Wars (Fantasy Flight Games)4 Shadowrun (Catalyst Game Labs)5 Fantasy/Dragon Age (Green Ronin)1,2,5: Class and level3 class† but not level.4 archetypes and priorities based.Oldest 6 games I personally know of still being sold:1 D&D2 T&T3 Traveller (GDW then, FFE now)4 RuneQuest (Chaosium)5 Starships & Spacemen (FGU then, Goblinoid now)D&D, T&T,  S&S: Class & LevelTraveller: Class†, but not level.RQ: skills onlyFFG SW is class/subclass, race & points comboTraveller was nearly pure random after picking career to attempt to enter. You don't build them, you discover them from your dice rolling...Shadowrun was Priorities (a specific subset of point build‡)D&D has a point build option for attributes, as well as array‡, in 3E and later.S&S, T&T, D&D, RQ: random rolls to generate characters in older editions.-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-† Career, which determines skills/talents available in SW and skills available in Traveller‡ Shadowrun Priorities are in fact a restricted choice point build, and dropping the restriction was an option in SR 1/2/3... Likewise D&D Array is a subset of D&D point build attributes.</blockquote>