2014 Most Popular RPGs @ the RPGSite



Game                          Votes                     
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Call of Cthulhu      20
Traveller (Classic/Mongoose)   18
GURPS 4e   14
AD&D 1e   13
D&D (BX)   10
Marvel Superheroes (Faserip)   9
AD&D 2e   8
D&D (TSR/WOTC) 8
Star Wars (West End)   8
Hero System   7
Pendragon   7
0D&D   6
Savage Worlds   6
Shadowrun    6
WFRP   6
Amber Diceless RPG   5
Basic Roleplaying BRP   5
Adventurer, Conqueror, King   4
Gamma World   4
Paranoia   4
Runequest 6th ed   4
Star Frontiers / Nighthawks   4
DC Heroes   3
Gamma World 2e   3
HarnMaster   3
ICONS   3
James Bond 007   3
Mutants & Masterminds   3
Pathfinder   3
Spycraft (Classic)   3
Stars without Number   3
TFT The Fantasy Trip   3
Werewolf: The Apocalypse   3
WoD   3
2300 AD   2
AD&D 4e   2
Castles & Crusades   2
Corps   2
D&D 5th   2
Deadlands   2
Dungeon World   2
Exalted 1e   2
Fading Suns   2
Flashing Blades   2
genreDivision   2
Gumshoe (Nights Black Agent) 2
GURPS 1e   2
Homebrew   2
Kult   2
L5R 4ed   2
Mage the Awakening   2
Marvel Super Heroes (TSR)   2
Mekton Zeta II   2
MERP   2
Microlight d20   2
Numenara   2
RIFTS   2
RMSS   2
Runequest 3rd ed   2
Shadowrun 2e   2
Traveller 4th ed   2
Waste World      2
3:16 Carnage Beyond the stars                                                      
7th Sea                                                      
Aces & Eights                                                      
AD&D 3e                                                      
AFMBE                                                      
Artesia                                                      
Atlantis: The Second Age                                                      
Atomic Highway                                                      
Barbarians of Lemuria                                                      
Barebones fantasy RPG                                                      
Bash!                                                      
Behind Enemy Lines                                                      
BESM (&2)                                                      
Beyond the Wall                                                      
Blade of the Iron Throne                                                      
Blood of Heroes                                                      
Boot Hill                                                        
Boot Hill 2e                                                      
Buck Rogers XXVC                                                      
Buffy/Angel                                                      
Bughunters                                                      
Burning Wheel/WFRPG                                                      
Champions                                                        
Champions 3rd/4th                                                      
Changeling: The Lost                                                      
Cinematic (Unisystem)                                                      
Cthulutech                                                      
Cyberpunk 2020                                                      
d20 Modern (Wotc)                                                      
D6 System                                                      
Daredevils                                                      
DCC Dungeon Crawl Classics                                                      
Double Cross                                                      
Dragonquest                                                      
Dread: The First Book of Pandemonium                                                      
Dungeonslayers                                                      
EABA                                                      
Empire of the Petal Throne                                                      
FantasyCraft                                                      
Fate Core                                                      
Feng Shui                                                      
FTL:2448                                                      
Gamma World 4e                                                      
H.O.L.                                                      
Heavy Gear 2nd ed                                                      
Hero System (Fantasy Hero)                                                      
In Harm's Way                                                      
Labyrinth Lord                                                      
Lamentation of the Flame Princess                                                      
Legend (Rule of Cool)                                                      
Mage: The Ascension                                                      
Megaversal (Palladium Fantasy)                                                      
Megaversal (Rifts)                                                      
Mercenaries Spies, & Private Eyes                                                      
Metamorphosis Alpha                                                      
Midgard                                                      
Mutant Future                                                      
Mutants & Masterminds 3e                                                      
New WoD (core)                                                      
OpenQuest                                                      
Other Dust                                                      
Over the Edge                                                      
Pokemon Tabletop United                                                      
Qin                                                      
radiance                                                      
Renaissance                                                      
Risus                                                      
Runequest 2e (Chaosium)                                                      
Shadowrun 3e                                                      
SLA Industries                                                      
Space: 889                                                      
Star Wars (FFG) Edge of the Empire)                                                      
Star Wars d20                                                      
Starships & Spacemen                                                      
Stormbringer 2ed                                                      
Supers!                                                      
Swords & Wizardry                                                      
TMNT: After the Bomb 2e                                                      
TMNT/After the Bomb                                                      
Top Secret                                                      
Torg                                                      
Traveller (Mongoose)                                                      
Ubiquity (Hollow Earth Expedition)                                                      
Underground                                                      
Unisystem (Classic)                                                      
Unknown Armies                                                      
V:TM                                                      
Warpworld                                                      
WFRP 2e                                                      
Wizard's Realm                                                      
X-plorers

My favorite games are like 40 and below. Works for me!:)

Woot; three of my fav's are in the top four.

Thanks for collating that GameDaddy, that's cool.

I think this is a good example of how the hobby has splintered the customer base. In order to get more fans, a product has to get a lot of traction. Is the hobby, as a viable industry, worse for the plethora of choices? As long as we can make do with small, indie labor of love games, and we can recruit and train our own limited pools of players, then maybe it doesn't matter. But if you want a hobby with the reach and power of, say, video games, we've screwed up.

Quote from: Piestrio;759966I'm a little surprised by the love that GURPS gets. It's share of the conversation in this board is basically zero.

I own more GURPs books than books for any other single game line, but I have zero interest in playing GURPs. For years it produced the best sourcebooks for the hobby. Granted, it also published its fair share of crap, but so far the only game thats come close was AD&D 2nd ed, and it doesnt really come that close,  as nice as those green-cover & grey-cover books were. Its a shame no company has stepped up to the plate to fill the hole left by GURPs 3rd.

why is Marvel Superheroes (Faserip) & Marvel Superheroes (TSR) counted seperately? Does that mean FASERIP really should be at (11) just under AD&D 1e?

Quote from: TristramEvans;760031why is Marvel Superheroes (Faserip) & Marvel Superheroes (TSR) counted seperately? Does that mean FASERIP really should be at (11) just under AD&D 1e?

I'm thinking the one with 2 votes may have supposed to have been Marvel Heroic Roleplaying? I know I put that on my five favorite and it isn't on the list.

Quote from: Emperor Norton;760037I'm thinking the one with 2 votes may have supposed to have been Marvel Heroic Roleplaying? I know I put that on my five favorite and it isn't on the list.

Is that Marvel (Saga)?

I think it goes:

Marvel Superheroes (TSR) aka "FASERIP"
Marvel Superheroes Adventure Game (TSR) aka "Marvel (Saga)"
Marvel Universe (Marvel) aka "Marvel (Stones"
Marvel Heroic Roleplaying (MWP) aka "Marvel Storygame"

Great job putting the list together, GameDaddy.  Thanks.

The 5 games that gave me my best campaigns so far :

Warhammer 1e
Legend of the five rings 1e
Savage Worlds
The Laundry
Waste World

1) Call Of Cthulhu
2) Unknown Armies
3) Earthdawn
4) SLA Industries
5) Unhallowed Metropolis

Quote from: Piestrio;759966I'm a little surprised by the love that GURPS gets. It's share of the conversation in this board is basically zero.

I'll add an honorable mention for GURPS 3E (Revised) - I played 3E and ran 3E Revised - because I probably played it more often than any other game and always had fun doing it. It was a long time ago, though. My top 5 reflects more recent gaming.

1: Gamma World 2nd Ed: Pretty much every edition after that has been increasingly a dissapointment.
2: Star Frontiers and Knight Hawks: Love the game. Came to be more and more disillusioned with the so called "Fans".
3: AD&D: Probably DMed this more than I've played it.
3.2: SpellJammer: Great setting with all sorts of crazy fun potential.
3.5: BX Basic D&D: Played this extensively with my siblings and still a very solid system on its own.
4: Marvel Superheroes: (FASERIP version) Great system with alot of flexibility for either role acting the bazillion pregens, or role playing your own character.
5: Call of Cthulhu: Forget what edition I have. Great game with its own style and approach.

Honourable Mention
6: Dragon Storm: Really innovative idea with a unique setting and premise. Too bad things went to hell.
7: After the Bomb: The big book remake of TMNT after the license was lost. Interesting setting that was along with Beyond the Supernatural the prototype for Rifts.
8: Torg: This was a really great setting with its wild idea to mix genre into invading cosms. Nile Empire was probably my favorite of the cosm books.
9: Albedo: The original Box and reprint. NOT the garbage "platinum edition". Paul did a very good job of translating the comic into a viable RPG setting.
10: Aberrant. Interesting superhero setting.
X: various others.

BRP (particularly Stormbringer and CoC)
WFRP 1st/2nd Edition
Shadowrun
BECMI D&D
Mage the Ascension

• Call of Cthulhu / Basic Role-Play / Legend / Renaissance
• Basic D&D / AD&D 2nd Edition / Basic Fantasy Roleplaying Game / Fantastic Heroes & Witchery /  Astonishing Swordsmen and Sorcerers of Hyperborea / Labrynth Lord
• Vampire: The Dark Ages
• Warhammer Fantasy Role-Play (1st or 2nd edition)
• Blood & Iron