mff@wuphys.UUCP (Mark Flynn) (06/19/85)
[Well, after doing all this and moreing it, I see that my clever use of tabs
to align columns has really screwed things up. Sorry about that, but I'm not
going to change it now.]
Well, here is is, folks. The results. I've posted two articles. This one is
a brief review of the results. The second is a more detailed analysis.
Actually, if I had it to do over, I would have thought out the questions a
little more. But, at any rate:
Number of responses: 34
1) WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE FRP GAMING SYSTEM?
home-brewed: 9
{
Four respondents indicated that there games were at least partially
derived from:
RuneQuest and AD&D
AD&D and Rolemaster
C&S
D&D
Dragon Quest and Traveller! (Holy Spacedragons, Batman)
}
AD&D: 8
Champions: 2
Rolemaster: 2
D&D: 2
Fantasy Hero: 1
Lands of Adventure: 1
RuneQuest III: 2 1/2
The Fantasy Trip: 2
C&S 1
Element Masters 1
Traveller: 1
Stormbringer 1/2
The 1/2's came from a double vote.
2) WHAT IS YOUR LEAST FAVORITE GAMING SYSTEM?
AD&D: 11 1/2
{
The 1/2 comes from the following response.
"There are no bad gaming systems, just bad DMs. However, AD&D lends itself to
bad DMing more than any other system."
}
Tunnels and Trolls: 5
RuneQuest: 2
AD&D and D&D 2
D&D 2
Traveller 2
Chivalry & Sorcerry
Dragonquest
High Fantasy
Marvel Superheroes
The Fantasy Trip
"None"
"Hmph"
"Spell Law/Character Law/Law Law by I.C.E. FAR too many tables!!"
3) ARE YOU CURRENTLY INVOLVED IN A GAME (AND IF SO, WHAT?)
Multiple responses are listed, as long as they're different
AD&D: 14
Champions: 6
none: 5
Home-brewed: 5
Traveller: 5
D&D: 4
Rolemaster: 4
Bushido 2
RuneQuest 2
James Bond
Justice, Inc.
Land of Adventure
MERP in the fourth age
Paranioa
Runequest/Stormbringer
Swords and Glory
systemless
The Fantasy Trip
4) WHAT IS THE AVERAGE LEVEL OF MEMBER (IF APPLICABLE) IN YOUR PARTY?
This questions turned out to be a real mess. It doesn't apply to some,
and ranges were given by most people. So, for answeres were levels are
appropriate, I am arbitrarily going to simpley display ranges of 1-3,4-6,
etc. If a range was given as a response, the aveage is taken.
Non-integral averages will be rounded down (not the most accurate, but the
easiest).
1-3:***********
4-6:**************
7-9:*****
>9 :****
For games where levels don't apply, I'll list the games seperately
Champions: 250, 300, 300, 280
Justice, Inc.: 85
Fantasy Hero: 75, 200
RuneQuest: 60%, 70%, {20-30%, some at 70,90%}, 50%, 35%
The Fantasy Trip: 36
5) HOW LONG HAS THE CURRENT CAMPAIGN BEEN GOING ON?
Again, all non-integral answers will be rounded down.
<1 yr:*************************
1 yr:******************
2 yr:*******
3 yr:***
4 yr:
>4 yr:******
The record holders in this catagory are:
0: hasn't started yet.
10 yrs: D&D
6) HOW LONG HAVE YOUR BEEN PLAYING THESE SILLY GAMES?
If multiple answers were given, the largest one is given.
<1 yr:
1 yr:*
2 yr:*
3 yr:
3 yr:*
4 yr:*****
5 yr:**
6 yr:*****
7 yr:**
8 yr:*****
9 yr:*******
10yr:
11yr:****
13yr:* (variant Chain Mail.)
Gadzooks, there's some ooold people out there.
7) LIST (BRIEFLY) THE GAMES IN WHICH YOU HAVE PLAYED.
I don't know what I expected out of this. Here's a list of all games
mentioned.
AD&D
Arduin Grimoire
Boot Hill
Bushido
Bunnies & Burrows
C&S
Call of Cthulha
Car Wars
Champions
Chainmail
Chart Law
Chill
Cosmic Encounter
D&D
Danger International
Dragon Quest
Dynasty
Element Masters
Elf Quest
Empire of the Petal Throne
En Garge!
EPT
Fantasy Hero
Fantasy Wargaming
Game Masters
Gamma World
Gang Busters
High Fantasy
Indiana Jones
Justice, Inc.
Magic World
Man, Myth, and Magic
Marvel Super Hero RPG
Melee
Melanda
Metamorphosis Alpha
Middle Earth R. P.
Monsters! Monsters!
Other Suns
Palladium
Paranoia
Powers and Perils
Ringworld
Rolemaster
RuneQuest
Space Opera
Star Trek
Sorcery
Stormbringer
Super Hero
Swordbearer
Swords & Glory
Superworld
The Morrow Project
Toon
Traveller
Top Secret
T&T
TFT
Warlock
Whew! That's the end. Send all complaints about spelling, ommisions, or
anything else to /dev/null.
Mark F. Flynn
Department of Physics
Washington University
St. Louis, MO 63130
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