Top 5 RPGs in Q3

[Liquidsabre]

I'm pretty new to DF-RPG and enjoying it. I'm still only 7 books into the series and can't get enough! Im sharing my books with all my fellow gaming buddies as well.

Anyhow, I happened across this tidbit on some of the other RPG boards I frequent and noticed Dresden Files RPG at #5 out of the top 5 RPG sales in Quarter 3 this year! I have to say that is very impressive and exciting! Just wanted to share the good news with my fellow RPG'ers.

http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/18504.html

Cheers!

-Brett

[Vash the white]

this would depend on the dnd edition. 3-3.5 was much better then 4.0

[Wyrdrune]

yes, dante, i am absolutely with you. i can see that DnD 4th has some benefits for some players at my table, as a GM i felt much more comfortable with DnD 3rd.

[Falar]

Is there anything new being published in Q3 for DnD 3.Xe?

If not, then it's DnD 4e.

[Tbora]

You can pretty much eliminate DnD and the number two pick as they are always the top sellers and have been for years.

If you do that then the DFRPG is ranked third.

[Arcteryx]

I get the sense that the gaming hobby is pretty healthy these days - I don't think anyone gets a career in this industry to make a whole ton of money, but I see more innovation and creativity in products coming out now than I've ever seen before.

I'm sure the smaller barrier to small-print publishing has helped out there.

[TheMouse]

Is there anything new being published in Q3 for DnD 3.Xe?

If not, then it's DnD 4e.

Yeah. It seems obvious that they'd be talking about the game line that's currently producing material, not the one that isn't and hasn't for a bit.

Pathfinder seems to have swept up the people who like 3.x and aren't content with the bloody huge pile of material already out for it. Which, based on this, would seem to be a fair number of people.

I'm very pleased to see that Dresden is doing so well. It's good to see a system I like so much taking off so well.

[Drashna]

Absolutely nothing new has been published for 3.x since the first 4th Ed books were published.

As for Paizo's success with Pathfinder... Well, WoTC didn't really fix anything important in 4th. They fixed some flavor, and the fixed the whole HD vs level adjustment thing, and they ... changed the combat system.  And by changed, I mean they streamlined parts of it, and added about 10 options for each class now. So now it's smoother, but newer/inexperience players will probably bog the sessions down *even* more. Pathfinder does streamline a lot of combat issues, while kinda ignoring the HD vs Level Adj issue (namely because the core classes are just much more powerful). 
Either way, Neither is a good solution to the problems 3.0 and 3.5 had. (aka, I'd *love* to play pathfinder if they'd convert 70% of the existing 3.5 stuff, because I'm not going to!)


Which is why I am personally loving the Dresden Files RPG. It's a very good balance between story telling and conflict (including combat). It's also very very flexible, while being limiting enough to not bog down people. And the rules are very simple, with some very complex applications that you can pretty much just ignore if you want. 

[Jaxom Faux]

as i understand it piazo now has the license for 3.5 which they're marketing as pathfinder rpg. it's pretty awesome.

their design philosophy is since the later 3.5 books are so much stronger than the core, they're starting at the core and revising up till all things are relatively equal while making some gameplay changes to fix issues.

and yeah, on that list i'm sure dnd is the current edition since pathfinder is 3.5

[TheMouse]

Well, WoTC didn't really fix anything important in 4th.

I know a lot of people who would disagree with you. I've talked to a lot of D&D fans who think that at will powers fix a huge glaring hole in the game, for example. I've talked to many others who feel that it fixed the whole, "Fighters do nothing but attack," deal that every edition of D&D has had going to some degree or other.

Whether they fixed things that bothered you is another issue.