So, the point of this thread is to see what folks are playing in your neck of the woods: your city, your FLGS, your local conventions. What’s the big game in Aurora, Illinois? What’s the game everybody is talking about in Pinochle, Wyoming? What’s the rage in Munster? Does Mage still hold sway in Quebec?
 
Obviously, D&D will be #1 in most places, I know that. But what else do folks seem to play, going just by your own experiences?
 
Here in my corner of Northeast Indianapolis suburbia, D&D 3.5 is easily tops. We have a fair amount of grognards, including a D&D campaign dating back near-continuously to 1978, and a group of Traveller die-hards from the same era.
 
Most recently, I’ve been doing my darndest to increase the Rifts presence. We already have a pretty sizable amount of Palladium players and fans, which makes this a nice place for me to be. I’d say Indy is one of the better cities for Rifts, etc.
 
The Ustio guys are around here, which is nice, too.
 
Most recently, we’ve seen demos of Hollow Earth Expedition, and one guy who’s looking for either an Iron Gauntlets or HardNova campaign group. Other games that make periodic appearances are GURPS (fairly strong representation), Savage Worlds, Deadlands, a tiny but persistent Shadowrun circle, and Spycraft. There is at least 1 ICE little group I’m aware of.
 
There’s a surprising deficit of White Wolf played in my neck of the woods, at least visibly—two FLGS owners here won’t stock it, due to theft issues.
 
So how about everyone else? What games are being played where you’re at?

I'm sure there must be D&D groups here in Grand Rapids, but I don't know any of  them personally. I have game mastered Shadowrun for a while now, for about 50 local area gamers. (Not all at once, thankfully.)

Most of them started out playing D&D, the older ones then went onto Palladium games (TMNT, Ninjas&Superspies, and the occasional Rift's player.) and eventually discovered Shadowrun, which they all love.

With some prodding we've also set up a regular Earthdawn group.

At various book stores I have seen adverts for D&D, War hammer, Werewolf, and Twilight 2000 (I had to look twice to believe it.) but not much else to be honest.

New games are hard to find here, so most people stick to what they have (and like). D&D is king, with some WoD stuff and Shadowrun popular too.

Quote from: Zachary The FirstSo how about everyone else?  What games are being played where you're at?

Montreal, Canada...

Obviously, D&D 3.5, along with annoying folks clinging to 3.0 and even 2nd edition. There's also a variety of D20/OGL products due to exposure, mainly big names like Star Wars and the craptacular Conan.

After D&D/D20/OGL, you get a large assortment of games, all of them franchises that date a decade or more. World of darkness comes first. Shadowrun, GURPS, Warhammer, CoC and Palladium generate a lot of interest and sales. And I'm not just talking of the latest editions. These games have maintained a lot of appeal for a long time.  

Lots of Hero System dinosaurs looking for players (and finding none, of course). It still sells pretty well.


What worries me is that there aren't any new games that seem to have lasting appeal anymore. Lines like Deadlands and Heavy Gear had some small success but faded pretty quickly. These days, it's even worse. New games die pretty quickly or generate very small interest in a few niche groups. Eden's various game lines, for instance, never quite became a hit around here.

I think we really need new games to become hits. And I'm not talking about shitty jokes like Dogs In the Whatever.

Quote from: Zachary The FirstThere’s a surprising deficit of White Wolf played in my neck of the woods, at least visibly—two FLGS owners here won’t stock it, due to theft issues.

Sorry to derail for a moment, but could you clarify that statement?  Do the store owners not carry WW games because the game books themselves have a greater tendency to be stolen, or because overall theft increases when WW games are kept in stock?  If it's the latter, I wonder how they isolated the WW variable.

Oh, and as for what games get played in this neck of the woods, here in the greater Seattle vicinity, it all depends upon where you go.  Some stores I go to stock mostly D&D/d20-related products and cater to players along those lines, while other stores I visit are centers for WW games and players.  I can think of at least one of each type of store that cater to "indie" games and players.

Perhaps more telling is the type of game that shows up in the resale bins at local used book stores.  No matter where I go, it's pretty much a balanced mix of D&D 3.5 and WW games, usually leaning toward the former.

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I can only see a small slice of the local pie, but I hear about the following games: D&D (duh), Feng Shui, Hackmaster, HERO System, Pendragon, Savage Worlds, Exalted.

At our gaming club here in Northwest Arkansas with around 20-30 active members, I'd say it goes something like this:

1) D&D 3.5
2 and 3) Exalted and Burning Wheel are pretty much tied
4) a smattering of Shadowrun

I see quite a few ads for D&D games at the local game stores, and little other activity.

Tim

Around here I think it is mostly D&D and Exalted, though looking at any particular bulletin board in the game stores usually nets a wide variety of advertised games.

Quote from: Ian AbsentiaSorry to derail for a moment, but could you clarify that statement? Do the store owners not carry WW games because the game books themselves have a greater tendency to be stolen, or because overall theft increases when WW games are kept in stock? If it's the latter, I wonder how they isolated the WW variable.

That's a good question.  I think they meant the books themselves got swiped, I think.  One of the FLGS owners doesn't really have a high opinion of WW in the first place, the other is a big Mage fan, so I'd be more willing to take his word on it.
 
If its the latter, yeah, I'd be with you on that--I don't know how they'd isolate that.

Quote from: JohnBAround here I think it is mostly D&D and Exalted, though looking at any particular bulletin board in the game stores usually nets a wide variety of advertised games.

See, now we have precisely 0 Exalted groups around here that I'm aware of.  Like it isn't even in the radar in the circles I travel in.
 
I am happy to see smaller-market quality publishers like PIG starting to get some wider notice around here.  I seriously wish there were a small-games con for Indy--we already have Gen Con, but I think it'd be awesome to introduce gamers whoa ren't active online to a lot of these sterling small-market companies.

No Exalted here.

Popular with my group: H&S, MSH, my FRPG, some Palladium works (sorta its used but it isn't always first choice)

General Area: D&D3E or more often AD&D2E or earlier AD&D forms, and OWOD/NWOD

Madrid, Spain.

This is the capitol of the country, and as such has the biggest population of gamers in Spain (though Barcelona comes really close). The variety is awesome, though I feel that the winners are both D&D / D20 family and WW. But you can find people playing virtually any game, from indie to mainstream, from old classics (we runequesters are a big bunch here) to the newest.

As far as I know, here in Finland the most popular titles in general are still D&D, CoC, WoD, and RuneQuest.

D&D 3.5 rules the roost here, far and away.  Grognards, kids, teenage girls, college students, etc. all play the game here.  Other big-name d20 derivatives are also popular, such as Mutants & Masterminds.  HERO has a solid following, as does GURPS and Exalted, and there are known minorities into the WoD (though the oWoD crowd is now mostly into the LARP scene; there are no nWoD LARPs) as well as Palladium Books.  The rest are increasingly miniscule factions, and as such are irrelevant.

Quote from: ImperatorMadrid, Spain.

This is the capitol of the country, and as such has the biggest population of gamers in Spain (though Barcelona comes really close). The variety is awesome, though I feel that the winners are both D&D / D20 family and WW. But you can find people playing virtually any game, from indie to mainstream, from old classics (we runequesters are a big bunch here) to the newest.

Isn't that where Anima was released? How is it doing?