YUMDM

This is really interesting. A poll from the Different Worlds magazine from May 1986. #ADnD ranks 27th & #DnD ranks 37th in a list of top 40 #TTRPG.

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Mar 8 at 12:35amWeb
Show threadRdGkAMar 8
@YUMDM yeah, players of these two would buy a Dragon anytime before and "different" Mag
Show threadIkoMar 8
@YUMDM That's really interesting. I used to play weekly several in the first tier. Toon was fun, Paranoia as well.
Show threadgdornMar 11
@YUMDM this seems to be a result of measuring two things: which games the rpg community thinks are good, vs which games they actually play. Kinda similar to how rpg reviews work, where playability isn't really under consideration in a lot of cases simply because the reviewer can't play it as designed...
Show threadE.T.SmithMar 22
@YUMDM As I recall, Different Worlds was a BRP/Chaosium adjacent publication, so the high ranking of RQ and it's descendants over objectively more popular games is not surprising. Still, didn't expect that Traveller would come in so low.
Show threadYUMDMMar 23
@E_T_Smith Oh, yeah. It sure was. There is bias there, but it's an interesting snapshot.