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.

Hey I may be in Spain in 2008 or so! It's where my wife is from. (She has family in Madrid.)

Quote from: Consonant DudeIsn't that where Anima was released? How is it doing?

Well, AFAIK is not doing bad. It has three books in stores, and a fourth in production, so it keeps a steady rithym. You can know more abot it here (web in english, spanish and some other languages):

http://www.animarpg.com/

I know some people around here quite pumped with the game. I'm not terribly interested in it, as I'm neither a big fan of anime nor interested in another "definitive übercrunchy fantasy RPG". Actually, the second reason is what matters the most. But maybe this year a friend will run some game of it, so we'll see.

QuoteHey I may be in Spain in 2008 or so! It's where my wife is from. (She has family in Madrid.)

That's awesome! Madrid is a great city either to visit or to live in. Be sure to drop me a PM if you're visiting

Goddamn Anima.  It LOOKS like everything Exalted ever dreamed of being when it comes to the presentation, but what little I've managed to see of the actualy gameplay mechanics suggests a level of crunch far beyond what I'm liable to want.

Plus it's still not out here yet, damnit.  I still posted on RPGnet when this thing was first announced for the US for crying out loud.

And now apparently they have minatures and cards coming too?

Aside from me, D&D is virtually the only game anyone in my area has ever heard of.

I'll echo what Bradford said, though I didn't know M&M, GURPS, and HERO were more common than other RPGs.  Call of Cthulhu is a big one too, and there's a dedicated group of "Indie" (I hate the term, but it's commonly accepted shorthand for a certain type of RPG, so I'll use it) gamers as well.

IME, you can find people playing (or willing to play) almost anything here if you look hard enough.  However, while there's a lot of gamers in the Twin Cities, it feels like it's very fragmented and that there is very, very little interaction or exchange between gaming groups outside of the occasional con.  But I would guess that this is how it is most places, not just here.

Of game groups I know people out of...

D&D, new and old versions, is popular around here.  There are a bunch of old school GMs who keep the 2nd edition really going.

Old World of Darkness, mainly vampire and werewolf.  The new stuff just didn't catch on at all.

Sla Industries.  Not as big as it used to be but there are still several groups here.  Mostly due to one person really pushing the game and showing it off.

Now according to a local shop Palladium still sells pretty good but I just don't know anybody who plays.

This used to be a White Wolf county, but I'm not currently aware of any White Wolf games running.

It seems like the only games anyone cares about around here is D&D 3.5. I have seen a few games of d20 modern.

Hard to say... amongst my current group, we've played GURPS, Fate and we're about to play Unknown Armies.  Through //www.GameCircle.org I hear about a variety of different games in my area including D&D (mostly 3.5), GURPS, Hackmaster, Runequest, Warhammer, CoC and a few indie games too.  By my estimation D&D definitely reigns supreme, but if I really wanted to make the effort I could probably find a group to play almost any game.  I suppose that's the benefit of living in a big city.

Going by memory of the bulletin board and game room calendar at the local big FLGS, in roughly decending order, a few D&D flavours (predominately 3/3.5 including a local "Living" club, a bit of AD&D usually advertised as housed up, don't recall any OD&D), a few different WW games (probably more than 1/2 of which is Exalted), CoC (this comes up on the bulletin board quite often), Shadowrun (used to be a weekly game instore, now there is a monthly Living game), Spycraft, Ars Magica (the Living club covers these last 2, don't really see much outside that though), BESM, Deadlands, GURPS, and Rifts (the last 4 I've see more in the past, been in a slow decline, although I think there might be a weekly GURPS game currently running). I've seen the D&D miniatures stuff too, and in play in the gameroom, whereever you pencil that in. A few others too (maybe Blue Planet, I'm sure I'm forgetting a couple...oh I'm pretty sure I've seen Lejendary Adventure and HERO up there too).

All of them though less exposure than WH minis and MtG, but then those two tend to be more public meet orientated. There's also a BattleTech league.  I see a good number of boardgamer meets advertised, primarily historical war which is a natural since about 1/3 the retail space of the store is a separate section for those items.

However I suspect if you looked hard enough you could find pretty about any game being played since the store itself carries an extremely wide variety. Keep in mind those are just the people that are actively looking for new people and advertising to the general public, not full game groups or groups not actively looking that hard.

Personally I found an SR4 group about a year back via an internet board by straight out asking the 6+ posters on Dumpshock that were in Calgary if they were looking for new SR4 players. When I met them I found out before SR4 they had played a really wide range of stuff. I'm trying to remember the space one (wasn't Spelljammer or Traveller), Riddle of Steel, Sorcerer, I think Dogs In The Vineyard, one of them is a Harnhead, some of them have played D&D, the one of them had played SR1 many years ago (the rest were brand new to Shadowrun), and a few other games that escape me at the moment.

I live in Mississauga, but play in Toronto. Out here, it's D&D and d20 mostly, with both flavours of WoD going strong.

Checking out the LGS's webpage, the real attraction on Sundays is Star Wars Collectible Starship Battles.

Otherwise, they seem to run a lot of Magic, Yu-gi-oh, and Vs. system events.  I know from experience that Magic is the driving force of the shop.

Oddly, they're trying to encourage people to come to the shop to play poker.

Around the Saint Louis area in the midwest US, White Wolf games are pretty popular. Vampire and others are popular with a lot of college students, community or otherwise, and other then that, it's a lot of D&D.

I know there's a hardcore GURPs cabal around somewhere, and my groups tend to vary widely. Exalted is huge, but so is D&D, Mage, and there's been a lot of talk about Burning Wheel.

Quote from: Thanatos02Around the Saint Louis area in the midwest US, White Wolf games are pretty popular. Vampire and others are popular with a lot of college students, community or otherwise, and other then that, it's a lot of D&D.

I know there's a hardcore GURPs cabal around somewhere, and my groups tend to vary widely. Exalted is huge, but so is D&D, Mage, and there's been a lot of talk about Burning Wheel.

To somewhat confirm Thanatos02 - Mage is, I believe, the second most popular game in the StL Camarilla, and is steadily gaining on Vampire.  Other LARPs in the area I've heard of are mostly oWoD vampire or mage.
The people I know who I don't currently game with are almost all D&D 3.5 and oWoD.  The people who I do game with are almost all D&D 3.5, d20 and OGL games, although someone slips in a weird one like Children of the Sun or Deadlands every once in a while.  I've been told one of the art students here is interested in running a Shadowrun game, and I suspect (but cannot confirm nor deny) that majority of the Children of the Sun games run have been in the St. Louis area.  Dave Dankel's group was here, IIRC.
Also, in the interest of full disclosure, I think most of the talk about Burning Wheel has been me and Paul.

besides D&D & WW,

Not much really. I have seen some GURPS games and there are a few Hintewlt games played around here. There are a bunch of games that seem to sell well but not all that many that I actually see played.

we're a not too large town of about 11,000 folks so i pretty much know the other few game groups in town from the now defunct game shop.
i am awash in a sea of WotC fanboys.
literally.
they will only play 3.5 with any regularity because, and this is what i heard from the lips of the two other DM's i used to regularly play with:"it's the perfect game." and "why would i play an older edition, they're dead games."
swine? perhaps?
only god knows and apparently he's too busy playing 3.5 to notice anyway.
oh, the the other group across town also runs 3.5. of course.

so 3.5 is king here.
huzzah.
it's mostly Forgotten Realms, a bit of Greyhawk, and a bit of Dragonlance from the third DM.

i have gotten a couple of my regular players hooked on Castles and Crusades and some homebrew D6 horror. i do have several interested in a D6 Star Wars.
one of the players also occassionaly runs Cyberpunk 2nd edition.

oh, and i'll do an occassional game of Nightlife that's popular with several in town but i'm the only CP with any experience running it so it hardly counts.

what i wish for is to expand Call of Cthulhu 3rd - 5th "editions" and a Rules Cyclopedia basic D&D game. I'm pretty sure I'll get them involved in a quick Vs Monsters game one afternoon.

dave


edited for: clarity and snark