What do people play more of nowadays?

[Herschel]

Why must you kludge our polls?

 

[Ravellion]

I currently play SW Saga. It's great!

 

[Ariosto]

I assure you, it was not meant as a personal slight against you.

That is not an issue. There is really not much to observe that is nearly as significant as that this is a poll posted in an online forum. The joining of those two items to the explicit exclusion of two that came between was odd enough to be remarkable even in that context.

How would you have grouped them together, and what extra would you have listed instead of lumping them under other?

The more relevant questions, I think, are (a) what significance you see in the selection and (b) what poll respondents see in it. How is this array related to

How many people have mostly switched over to 4e, how many are playing 3e/3.5

, and how are you identifying switchers? Do you simply assume that everyone who picks the 4e box has 'switched from' something else? Do you further assume that this something else is 3e/3.5?

The whole design does more to raise questions about just what you are trying to do than it does to answer anything.

 

[malkav666]

On the issue of the poll being hacked. I voted Pathfinder while not logged in so my name does not appear in the list either.

love,

malkav

 

[Sylrae]

(a) what significance you see in the selection

Well, mostly I wanted to see the following, even though I can't take a very accurate sample:
How many people prefer 4e
How many people prefer PFRPG (and other 3.5 derivatives)
How many people prefer 3e/3.5e
How many people prefer AD&D
How many people prefer old-style D&D and similar games
and how many people prefer something else (with some examples listed just because i was curious what the 'other' breakdown might be like).

I figured I'd get a bigger sample here, and it would be a wider spread of gamers than in my local group.

Plus we started an RPG club at the university, and I was curious of what the main pulls will likely be in terms of games people want to play in the fall (we also get alot of alumni). obviously this doesnt actually answer it, but it allows me to speculate while a bit more informed of what people like.

(b) what poll respondents see in it.

I don't know what other people will see in it. personally I find it interesting to look at and it gives me somethingto ponder, if nothing else.

How is this array related to , and how are you identifying switchers? Do you simply assume that everyone who picks the 4e box has 'switched from' something else? Do you further assume that this something else is 3e/3.5?

To some extent I assume that the people who did switch to 4e played some previous edition of D&D. I suppose some of the people never played any other games, but that's fine for my purposes as well. I just wanted to know what types of games were liked, and how many people liked them (percentages)

The whole design does more to raise questions about just what you are trying to do than it does to answer anything.

it's mostly curiosity, but now you have more detail surrounding my curiosity. Does that answer your questions?

 

[jdeleski]

I also had forgotten to log in before voting for Pathfinder. As DM, Pathfinder is my game of choice, and my players are thoroughly enjoying the enhancements/improvements.

 

[TerraDave]

Counting the actual names is a much better indicator than the number shown in the poll - which has almost certainly been hacked.

Yep. I have noticed this in competitive polls I have done in the past that are somehow construed as passing judgement on well known game companies or products.

In one case (which involved an overaly elaborate and time consuming series of polls, yes, this is something I like to do from time to time) I exchanged emails with Russ and PKitty on it...they basically reminded that this is the internet.

 

[maddman75]

Voted World of Darkness, as that's been the big one lately. Been running a Hunter: the Vigil game and having a blast. One advantage of hunter is all the other cool to read WoD books become 'stuff my hunters can kill'.

Our other weekly game alternates games every 3-5 sessions so we can try out different stuff. Savage Worlds right now. I'd like to do more SW, we've talked about Gamma World, FATE, Shadowrun, and Dogs in the Vineyard next. Run a monthly Call of Cthulhu game.

We don't do much D&D in our group, I think mostly because none of us agree on edition. I like 4e, as does my SO (though neither of us are huge fans, describing it at 'the least terrible version of D&D'*). Couple of people really like the 3e stuff, and a couple would rather play AD&D or RC.

There's so many awesome games out there, I love to try out new stuff. Sometimes the way things work in one game make you think of a way to use it in another, or change how you look at games in general. Its a good time to be a gamer - especially in Springfield!




*I know there's a strict no edition war rule and I'm not trying to start one. I don't like any of them really. Any of them are way, way down on my list of stuff to play, and the one I like best (4e) I would agree with the harshest critic has problems. Not offering bait, not taking any, just answering the poll.

 

[gilthan3]

My group runs 3.5 D and D , and also World of Darkness(original!)

 

[mxyzplk]

Our group plays about 50% Pathfinder and then 50% misc others (Alternity, Savage Worlds, WoD, GURPS, M&M...)