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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mhacdebhandia" data-source="post: 3486614" data-attributes="member: 18832">Dungeons & Dragons is and always has been king in Australia. We don't really have a roleplaying industry of our own - we're too small and too culturally close to the United States and the United Kingdom to sustain a unique instantiation of the hobby like Germany, France, or the Scandinavian countries do. Just as D&D dominates roleplaying here, for instance, Warhammer dominates the wargaming hobby.Basically, we're not that different from the U.S. White Wolf games are popular, probably most closely followed (at a distance) by GURPS. Our gaming shelves are dominated by d20 and OGL products first, and everything else second.When I worked at Games Paradise in Sydney we had a lot of the more prominent minor games - Legend of the Five Rings, Shadowrun, Gear Krieg, All Flesh Must Be Eaten, that sort of thing - but they weren't particularly successful. Lots of back stock on our sales tables, while White Wolf had about two-thirds as much space as the d20/OGL section (and GURPS about half of that).I will say that I don't get the impression that Palladium Books has been as successful with its games in Australia as it has in the U.S. - which isn't to say that they're unknown. I know at least one guy who was really into Nightbane back in the late Nineties - but whenever I hear people on, say, RPGnet asserting that Palladium is or once was the second- or third-largest player in the industry by market share, it surprises me greatly.Though we don't have much of a native industry, we do have our share of designers involved in major games thanks to the magic of the Intarwebs - Steve Darlington in Brisbane writes for Games Workshop/Black Library's Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay Second Edition, for instance, and Patrick O'Duffy in Melbourne (formerly in Brisbane) wrote for White Wolf's Hunter: The Reckoning and Demon: The Fallen (at least) and more recently for Green Ronin's new Freeport products. Off the top of my head.</blockquote>

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