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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MonsterMash" data-source="post: 5037143" data-attributes="member: 12974">There are probably more different RPG available now, particularly if you count pdf or other electronic only releases in the sales. Because of the amount of free electronic versions of some games it's hard to have accurate sales figures across all formats. D&D has historically been the market leader, but there will always be peaks and troughs in sales of any edition of any game. I don't know for sure if the overall number playing pen and paper RPG is higher or lower than it was as there are more fragmented gaming communities now around the different games. It'd be interesting to know if gaming convention attendances are higher or lower than in the early 1980s when D&D first had mass popularity, but that is not a particularly good measure of the overall gaming population. The number of new games coming out is not the best indicator of number of gamers playing as there are plenty of people who might still be playing 1e AD&D that they bought in 1980 so wouldn't necessarily register in games sales these days.</blockquote>