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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.…

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.