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Roll20’s state of the TTRPG industry report is out for Q4 2021; D&D 5e nudges even further ahead

February 28, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Orr Group, the people who own Roll20, report which roleplaying games are most popular on their virtual tabletop throughout the year.

Filed Under: Sites Tagged With: ankit lal, Dungeons & Dragons, roll20, stats, The Orr Group, the orr report

Call of Cthulhu grows again as Roll20 re-designs its market share report

September 23, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Perhaps the biggest surprise in the 2021 Q2 Roll20 report is the re-design. D&D is still the most popular game played.

Filed Under: Sites Tagged With: blades in the dark, Call of Cthulhu, Dungeons & Dragons, infographics, insane, ironsworn, Mutants & Masterminds, pathfinder, roll20, stats, The Orr Group

The quickest growing RPG in Roll20 last quarter wasn’t D&D; it was The Burning Wheel

April 15, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Orr Group’s Roll20 market report puts Luke Crane the headlines again as The Burning Wheel grows faster than Apocalypse World, faster than Cyberpunk and faster than Free League’s Year Zero Engine with some dramatic shifts.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, Luke Crane, roll20, the burning wheel, The Orr Group

Over 1 million homebrew games on Roll20

February 21, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

As Roll20 has shared their user base milestone, we can run some maths. We know the percentage of games users play and know the total number of users; we can convert those ratios to absolute figures.

Filed Under: Sites Tagged With: Call of Cthulhu, Dungeons & Dragons, roll20, The Orr Group

Roll20 logged more than 100 million total play hours; D&D grows again

October 16, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

D&D 5e once again tops the Orr Report on Roll20 games in the third quarter of 2020.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: roll20, stats, The Orr Group

Roll20 reports 2020 Q2 boom in RPGs; D&D reigns supreme

August 5, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

D&D 5E is the unchallenged champion with 53% of all campaigns in Roll20 using the system and 58% of all players using it.

Filed Under: Sites, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: alien rpg, Dungeons & Dragons, Free League Publishing, mork borg, roll20, The Orr Group

Roll20 reveal the 10 RPGs that have enjoyed a surprising boom in popularity

May 6, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

It’s not surprising that RPGs are booming, this hobby of ours has become increasingly more fashionable. Then the combination of lockdown, presence of virtual tabletops and free video calls makes roleplaying online a clever thing to do. What might be surprising are the 10 games that have seen their online usage soar the most. Each […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, FATE, HeroQuest, ironsworn, pathfinder, roll20, tales from the loop, The Orr Group

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #34

February 7, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

RPG news summary on the week the internet debated whether Love Magic was creepy or not, a heavy metal band released a D&D adventure, and there was one last chance to buy Adventures in Middle-earth.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: adventures in middle-earth, bundle of holding, Chaosium, cubicle 7, daniel d. fox, density media, Dungeons & Dragons, Elephant & Macaw Banner, en publishing, Evil Hat Productions, fate condensed, Free League Publishing, geek native, Green Ronin Publishing, humble bundle, judge dredd, killer kobolds from outer space, modern age, mork borg, Owen Stephens, Paizo Publishing, roll20, routinely itemised, Russ Morrissey, Steve Jackson Games, The Orr Group, the wagadu chronicles, Troll Lord Games, unearthed arcana, wizards of the coast, woin, zweihander

D&D 5e strengthens its market share

February 5, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In the last quarter of 2019 more people than ever were playing D&D 5e on Roll20.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: roll20, The Orr Group

D&D 5e leads, Call of Cthulhu doubles market share in the Roll20 pack

October 30, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Orr Group, the company behind Roll20, have just released their latest set of stats and they show that just over half of all users play D&D.

Filed Under: Sites Tagged With: Call of Cthulhu, Dungeons & Dragons, roll20, The Orr Group

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