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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 6845956" data-attributes="member: 996">My question wasn't whether they were boardgames (they're clearly 'story games'), but whether they might not be slipping through the cracks and not being counted as RPGs in the few rankings we see now and then...I had heard Dungeon World mentioned in passing.  It is not in any way an OSR game, then?So really pretty small compared to D&D or PF (PF boosters are always going on about how much PF sells on the Paizo site, on top of in-store sales), but maybe nipping at the heels of Dragon Age (which is, what, a video-game licensed RPG) or whatever's popping into the 3-5th place slot of the IcV2 charts behind classic-feel 5e and retro-clone PF in a given quarter.  (And, no I'm not quite buying some of the implied numbers you came up with, here.  IcV2 are rankings of what IcV2 measures, FWTW, and that may not be much, but trying to Ouija-board our way from some specific reported instance of something in one quarter to a general idea of the volumes involved is really, really tenuous.)But, if there's a number of such games, they might, collectively, be a significant trend.  But, then, there are a lot of smaller OSR games, too, and kickstarter re-boots of old games.</blockquote>