Who's Playing What on Fantasy Grounds?

Fantasy Grounds has sent along its latest usage stat for 2016, showing which games folks are playing on its platform. As usual, 5E is out way ahead with a whopping 57% share, followed by Pathfinder. Then come Savage Worlds and D&D 3.5, followed by D&D 4E - essentially several versions of D&D, plus Savage Worlds hold the top five spots. Other notable contenders include FFG's Star Wars, Call of Cthulhu, Iron Kingdows, and Rolemaster Classic. In the below charts, "Core RPG" is Fantasy Ground's default core module which allows you to play a range of different games, rather than one of the specific packages.

Rank	Game	Number
1	D&D 5E	180,492 (57%)
2	Pathfinder	39,499 (13%)
3	D&D 3.5	20,555 (7%)
4	Savage Worlds	19,192 (6%)
5	D&D 4E	8,308 (3%)
6	Star Wars (FFG)	6,427 (2%)
7	Call of Cthulhu	5,016
8	Iron Kingdoms	4,040
9	Rolemaster Classic	2,999
10	DSA	2,860
11	Warhammer 40K	2,166
12	Castles & Crusades	1,960
13	WFRP	1,933
14	Numenera	1%
15	GURPS 4E	1,677
16	Fate Core	1,529
17	Mutants & Materminds	925
18	Basic Roleplaying	825
19	Shadowrun	758
20	World of Darkness	622
21	AD&D	565
22	Star Wars Saga	534

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[Jhaelen]

Rolemaster gets played a bit because Fantasy Grounds takes care of a decent chunk of the book keeping and tables and stuff for this system making it run much faster. [MENTION=42841]JesterOC[/MENTION]

That might explain it. We've tried playing it twice (well, once we tried MERP which was based on a simplified Rolemaster rules) and both times it was a complete disaster. Everyone agreed the system was basically unplayable without the aid of a computer.

 

[Maggan]

A small correction. You mention the game "Iron Kingdows". I think you mean "Iron Windows", the triple glazing window sales simulationistic RPG.



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[Lwaxy]

Surprised Splittermond isn't counted yet.

Can't really use FG anymore due to connection issues.

 

[Nylanfs]

Surprised Splittermond isn't counted yet.

Can't really use FG anymore due to connection issues.

Have you talked to damned on the FG forums? He'll help you out.

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[Lwaxy]

I know the problem's on my side due to my ISP, not much he could do.

 

[turkeygiant]

Im always surprised at how low World of Darkness is on this list considering it is multiple active gamelines. I think part it might be that you cant take Fantasy Grounds numbers as gospel for the entire industry, just games their system supports well.

 

[Thiago Rosa Shinken]

What's up with how Numenera is listed? If it is 1% of all total games, it's 3146 games and the graph is wrong. If it is 1% of other games, it's 547 games and the graph is still wrong.

 

[Griogre]

Assuming the 1% isn't a typo (its the only like that) it should be 1% of the 17% of the total games or around 2,750ish based on the 3%s of the 12%s for CoreRPG and 4E games.

 

[Thiago Rosa Shinken]

Assuming the 1% isn't a typo (its the only like that) it should be 1% of the 17% of the total games or around 2,750ish based on the 3%s of the 12%s for CoreRPG and 4E games.

but that would make it 500-ish, which would put it a lot lower than it is in the rankings.

 

[M.L. Martin]

Im always surprised at how low World of Darkness is on this list considering it is multiple active gamelines. I think part it might be that you cant take Fantasy Grounds numbers as gospel for the entire industry, just games their system supports well.

You're probably right...but I don't think the WoD is anything like the juggernaut it was even a decade ago.