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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8256879" data-attributes="member: 18">Whilst this is undoubtedly true, it's worth noting that particularly pre-pandemic, there was little/no reason to use Roll20 unless going for a fairly crunch-heavy game, or one where you're using a particularly large number of handouts, and Roll20's support for certain systems wasn't great (and still isn't), so whilst I'm sure D&amp;D would be #1 by a huge margin, I'd be very skeptical about any games listed after that being even close to in the correct order. Not that you're saying they are, of course. But you mention Traveller is on 0.09%, and I doubt that is actually reflective of the percentage of gamers using it for SF games.Also re: sci-fi RPGs, I wouldn't put Shadowrun, 40K, or Star Wars down as those are all solidly space-fantasy, particularly SR and 40K (you could potentially argue the Force as weird science not that much more bizarre than some forms of FTL and so on, but not SR's magic, which is explicitly non-scientific, nor 40K's Chaos/Warp).As for a default sci-fi setting I don't think there is one, but I think we creep closer to one every year, as more and more sci-fi stuff appears on TV and in games and certain commonalities emerge that weren't present when it was more commonly a literary or movie genre. Specifically, I'd say a &quot;default&quot; sci-fi setting is gradually emerging which is basically &quot;cyberpunk with spaceships&quot;, or perhaps you could say cyberpunk elements are gradually colonising most other SF (this extends back to the '90s to some extent - there are a couple of Deep Space 9 episodes which are pretty cyberpunk, bizarrely enough - it's much more common now though).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 8256879, member: 18"] Whilst this is undoubtedly true, it's worth noting that particularly pre-pandemic, there was little/no reason to use Roll20 unless going for a fairly crunch-heavy game, or one where you're using a particularly large number of handouts, and Roll20's support for certain systems wasn't great (and still isn't), so whilst I'm sure D&D would be #1 by a huge margin, I'd be very skeptical about any games listed after that being even close to in the correct order. Not that you're saying they are, of course. But you mention Traveller is on 0.09%, and I doubt that is actually reflective of the percentage of gamers using it for SF games. Also re: sci-fi RPGs, I wouldn't put Shadowrun, 40K, or Star Wars down as those are all solidly space-fantasy, particularly SR and 40K (you could potentially argue the Force as weird science not that much more bizarre than some forms of FTL and so on, but not SR's magic, which is explicitly non-scientific, nor 40K's Chaos/Warp). As for a default sci-fi setting I don't think there is one, but I think we creep closer to one every year, as more and more sci-fi stuff appears on TV and in games and certain commonalities emerge that weren't present when it was more commonly a literary or movie genre. Specifically, I'd say a "default" sci-fi setting is gradually emerging which is basically "cyberpunk with spaceships", or perhaps you could say cyberpunk elements are gradually colonising most other SF (this extends back to the '90s to some extent - there are a couple of Deep Space 9 episodes which are pretty cyberpunk, bizarrely enough - it's much more common now though). [/QUOTE]

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