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Poll Results - Bob World Builder
(lemmy.ca)
Here are the results from the poll posted in May. (https://lemmy.ca/post/64421437)
Google Drive: https://drive.google.com/drive/mobile/folders/12yFvkpWgWpSsx200KUUnyVsW2wbfwowf
YouTube Video: https://youtu.be/V7khLevB3wU
Top 7
- D&D (all editions)
- Pathfinder (all editions)
- Daggerheart
- Shadowdark
- Draw Steel
- Nimble
- Call of Cthulhu (all editions)
Special callout from Bob to Cottagecore Goblin Lesbians Destroy Capitalism RPG.
I understand that in some countries, Call of Cthulhu is more popular than D&D, based mainly on a series of video interviews by Don't Stop Thinking asking about various DungeonTubers' local scenes. Pathfinder was also lesser-known outside the US at the time of those interviews, though that might have changed by now since the interviews happened before the OGL debacle of 2023.
Pteryx the Puzzle Secretary Paizo has absolutelly shit international distribution, and primarily relies on licensing deals for translations (which means there are limited translations). So it's both incredibly expensive to get the books outside of North America, and to get it in yout language you have to wait months to years.
Even here in Canada it can be a pain in the ass sometimes.
I recall Call of Cthulhu is huge in Japan.
Yep! The relative smallness of D&D in Japan is only secondarily about Sword World existing, and primarily about just how popular CoC is there, from what I can tell. CoC seems to just generally be better-known internationally than Pathfinder is, or was at the time at least.