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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Argyle King" data-source="post: 5767593" data-attributes="member: 58416">Wow, good question.  I'm not 100% sure, but I'll do my best to count/remember.D&D 4th Editionas player: Four completely by going from 1-30; four which were completed in other ways.  8 totalas DM: 2 (I'm currently running a third, but it has not yet been completed)10 for D&D 4th EditionD&D 3rd Editionas player: Honestly, I have no idea.  I know it's been more than my time with 4th Edition.  Offhand I can count 6 which are fresh in my mind, but I know there have been more than that.as DM: 3Palladium Rifts1 as a playerGURPS 4th Editionas player: 2as DM: 4Because I'm sure this will seem like an unbelievable amount to some, it seemed reasonable to explain.  The meager 1 I have with Rifts was my first foray into rpgs; I was on a rather uneventful UN mission in the Balkans which meant I had a lot of free time.  The story is actually somewhat amusing; the short version being that I bought the D&D 3rd Edition books, found out I was being deployed and shipped out a few days later, and ended up playing Rifts as my first rpg experience via one of the other guys in the unit being experienced with the system.  When I got home, 3.5 had been released.  The large amount of D&D 3rd edition and D&D 4th edition can be explained simply by saying I've been involved in multiple groups for a few years.  For sure a small area, there's a surprising amount of gamers where I live.  Part of the boost in D&D 4th Edition's numbers is also due to the group I most regularly game with (the 'Saturday group' in other posts I've made on Enworld) being rather zealous about playing the new system when it was new.  Regular sessions occurred on multiple times per week for about a year.  GURPS has mostly been with the Saturday group.  They welcomed a break from D&D after spending so much time with it.  I was originally the only person who had any familiarity with it (at the time that mostly meant I owned the books and had read them.)  I GMed a supers game which went surprisingly well; surprising because I was still fresh to the game myself and because I was flying by the seat of my pants for the first few sessions.  Afterward, one of the other players showed a greater interest in learning the game, and he became the GM for the next game which was loosely based on Dead Space; that same person GMed what I suppose you could categorize as a space marines game as well.  Other games I've run included a Horror game which I based on one of the Betrayal at House On The Hill scenarios, a dungeon fantasy game, and a fantasy game.</blockquote>

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