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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jaeger" data-source="post: 8348581" data-attributes="member: 27996">I am very curious to see if CPRed has the legs to maintain the #2 spot.  That would be very good for the hobby.IMHO having both the number one and two RPG's  out there taking up shelf space both being D&D, while good for D&D games, is not the best thing for the rest of the hobby.We had a wider variety of systems that were more readily visible to casual gamers coming in through the D&D gateway drug when Vampire was a solid #2.Now we have D&D. D&D's clone. Two flavors of the quarter, and D&D games that collectively outsell everything else. That is not a healthy variety of top 5 game systems...Ryan Dancy's OGL has accomplished its goal.I'm glad that Alien seems to have actual legs as it has been out since 2019.CPRed seems to have legs, as it has been out since Spring of 2020, so lets hope that players are starting to find more variety in RPG systems, and that it becomes a reinforcing loop.It would be nice; seeing what games rise and fall in a top ten ranking would give us a better perspective on which sales bumps are blips and which RPG's have real sets of legs.An yes '5e compatible' is silly lazy. Give us the top 5 games, not the sales of 6 titles bundled together.The problem with the game that underpins them is that PF 1+2e are both more complex than 5e. I am very curious to see how Savage Worlds Pathfinder does. Showing that 'other systems can do fantasy too' is a good thing because it gives Established fanbases a reason to try out a non-d20 system in a context that is acceptable within the prevailing IP centric nature of the RPG hobby.</blockquote>

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