Most Played FRPG of 2010

[CleverNickName]

As of 8:00 a.m. PST, 162 people had taken the poll. I felt like crunching numbers and counting stuff, so here is what I could glean from the poll. (This analysis ignores "anonymous" voters.)

- 4E was the most-played game of 2010, but only about half of ENWorlders played it even once. (I expected at least two-thirds.)

- There was some overlap between 3.X and Pathfinder, but not as much as I thought there would be. In fact, only 4 of you played both 3.x and Pathfinder. (I expected a lot of overlap, like 80% or something.)

- About 30% of the people who play 4E also play 3.x or Pathfinder. (Apparently the rift isn't as wide as some would have us believe.)

- That said, 4E gamers as a whole are still the most exclusive. Almost a third of people who played 4E this year did not play anything else (32%).

- The most popular write-in vote so far is Savage Worlds (6 votes, 3.70%.)

- Dungeons & Dragons, as a whole, remains the undisputed champion of the RPG. Even without Pathfinder's help, a full 90% of you play at least one version or edition of D&D.

- Our most versatile gamer (so far) is Treebore, who claims to have played 11 different games, not counting sci-fi and western genres. The runner up is Nagol, with 7.

Data is fun. Unreliable data, moreso.

 

[the Jester]

I run a 4e campaign, so that was most of my gaming.

Also, I ran a playtest game of my own homebrew version of D&D (so "D&D other").

Also, a little Gamma World (so "other" in general).

 

[Achan hiArusa]

Exalted (three different campaigns, Storytold in two and played in one)
Scion
Torg
GURPS

I just realized I haven't played a d20 game in almost a year and a half. Oh, there was a character creation session for Star Wars Saga, but I never played in it.

 

[Thornir Alekeg]

D&D 2nd edition once this year to help out a friend

Champions 5th edition (will be doing 6th edition for 2011)

 

[MortonStromgal]

Desolation (18 times)
Shadowrun (12 times)
Warhammer (6 times)
nVampire/nMage set in Roman Era (4 times)
Burning Wheel (3 times)
Pathfinder (2 times)
Eclipse Phase (2 times)
D&D 4e (1 time)
Unknown Armies (1 time)
Dragon Age (1 time)

I wanted to put the times because although I marked 4e and Dragon Age, we only played them once. Desolation was our Fantasy game of choice this year. And Fantasy beat out Sci-fi/Horror/Other.

 

[darjr]

Mongoose Traveller
Shadowrun
Metamorphosis Alpha 1e
Against the Darkness

 

[FireLance]

Mostly D&D 4E, but I also played several sessions of the Lone Wolf Multiplayer game.

My friend has blogged about our game sessions here.

 

[CleverNickName]

More fun with statistics! I present the data, you draw your own conclusions...

As of 8:43 a.m. PST:

Total number of votes: 202
Total number of anonymous votes: 64
Total number of valid votes: 138

This analysis only deals with the 138 voters that were from registered users. (32% of all votes were anonymous.)

Total number of boxes checked: 306
Average boxes/voters: 2.217
On average, each voter checked 2.2 boxes.

Statistics Without Anonymous Voters:
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1.45% Ars Magica
2.17% Burning Wheel
3.62% Castles & Crusades
8.70% Dragon Age
59.42% D&D 4E
29.71% D&D 3.X
2.90% D&D 2E
18.12% D&D Misc
0.72% Earthdawn
3.62% Exalted
0.72% Grimm
2.17% GURPS
3.62% HackMaster
3.62% Legend of the Five Rings
0.00% Lejendary Adventure
0.00% Lord of the Rings
3.62% Mouseguard
1.45% Palladium
24.64% Pathfinder
2.17% Rolemaster
10.87% Warhammer
0.00% Wheel of Time
28.99% Other
1.45% None

44% of the votes for Pathfinder were from anonymous voters, compared to 21% for 3.X and 12% for 4E. Only 7% of the "D&D 1E or Older" votes were anonymous.


Number of Games by Players
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66 voters only played 1 game category
24 voters played 2 game categories
24 voters played 3 game categories
14 voters played 4 game categories
6 voters played 5 game categories
3 voters played 6 game categories
Nobody played 7 game categories
Treebore played 8 game categories


Games by Votes
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D&D 4E: 82 players
D&D 3.X: 41 players
D&D 2E: 4 players
D&D 1E: 25 players
Pathfinder: 34 players

40 people voted for "other," but only 18 games were described in the body of the thread.


Most Popular Write-Ins:
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Savage Worlds (8 votes, 5.79%)
Shadowrun (3 votes, 2.17%)

If you are an ENWorld Registered User (not merely a visitor):
* It is safe to assume you play D&D (87.68%),
* or at least a D20 product (94.44%),
* and it's probably 4th Edition (59.42%).
* Nobody plays Lejendary Adventure for some reason.

And if you play 4E:
* You probably also play something else (62.22%),
* but it isn't Pathfinder (1.45%).
* In fact, it's most likely not a WotC product (68.78%)...
* ...but if it is, it's probably D&D 3.X (31.22%)

Who says math isn't fun?

 

[Pseudonym]

Since you asked about Fantasy, I voted D&D 4E and Other for HârnMaster.

Outside of Fantasy, I've played Mutants and Masterminds, Savage Worlds and Gamma World.

To threadjack slightly, for the 32 of you who have played Burning Wheel, are any of you near Boston? I have the two core books and would love to get in on a game, even just a one shot. I've read the books several times and gave a go at creating a character, but I'd really like some table experience to see how things work in actual play.

 

[JoeGKushner]

D&D 4E, mostly. A game of 3E, with visiting friends. And the Savage Worlds' Solomon Kane game.

How did the Solomen Kane go in your opinion? I've been reading up on the old pilgrim via Dark Horse comics interpetation.