#RPGaDay2024 - Day 3 - Most Often Played RPG

Day 3 of #RPGaDay2024 and the organizers what a breakdown of the numbers, "Most Played RPG" 

Most folks have a rough estimate of what they play the most, I've kept a running tally for the past 35 years, since I started playing in 1989. 

The baseball card stat memorizer in me started keeping track of not only when I played a particular RPG, Miniatures, or Board Game, but I also documented when I ran "GM'ed" a game.  

A third of a lifetime ago, I had a hard drive failure and lost what had turned into a simple spreadsheet, but not only have I save my new list of gameplay since 2009, I've rebuilt the original, documenting all the games and specific years I probably played certain games, give or take a year.

At the end of the day, it's only kept to satisfy my own peculiarities... and for #RPGaDay purposes. 

Currently:   I already mentioned my Monday night online Gamma World campaign, yesterday.  Seventy episodes in, and there's plenty of room for 100+. 

ViscountEric's All-Time RPGs Played List:

D&D (All Editions): From Red Box to AD&D to the current version, D&D was my bread and butter for a long time.   Starting with the heavily embellished Lost Dispatches and ending with the Ballad of the Pigeon God, I've GM'ed hundreds of sessions.

Star Wars (West End D6): Even with missing out on a massive campaign in the mid-90's, 2020's Star Wars campaign ran so long that it earns the #2 spot.  Inspired (in)directly by Tiger King the campaign was largely mercantile, with the crew of the Pretio navigating in the grey area of the Empire and the Rebellion circa 5 BBY.  Lots of borrowed 1st Edition Traveller and Star Frontiers material.

Hackmaster, 4th Edition:  After the Ballad of the Pigeon God, I transitioned future games in my homebrew world of Georic to the Kenzer & Company game.. and we played it as straight as we played D&D.  Lots of Gnome Titans, child labor, and unfinished business with the Slavers of Roark. 

Gamma World:  If we continue playing consistently for another year, we'll get close to surpassing Hackmaster.  These numbers include games we played back in 1992-93. 

Call of Cthulhu:  Lots of one-shots, an abortive attempts at Masks of Nylarathotep as a player (we finished New York), while finally achieving a proud feather in my cap:  Completing Masks as a Keeper, with a significant lead-up of almost twenty sessions before the name Jackson Elias even came up.   We had an interesting body count, and fitting to me tracking game sessions, we tracked that two initial characters from the first Masks session survived to the end... one from the 2nd ever session of the campaign!