Poll: What Is Your Favorite TTRPG? (from Bob Worldbuilder)

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Youtuber Bob Worldbuilder has put out a poll asking What Is Your Favorite TTRPG?

His expectation was that D&D (5e) would be the big winner, but preliminary result showed a lot of people have other preferences.
And Traveller is one of the specific options in his (long) list 😊 . Which made me think, maybe people here want to speak up... out...?

Data will be shared publicly.

Here is the poll:
docs.google.com

Poll: What Is Your Favorite TTRPG? (2026)

This is a simple poll with a lofty goal! With your help, we can reach across the entire tabletop roleplaying game community, both online and offline, to learn which TTRPGs are the most popular in 2026. Note: This question is not rooted in competition, but curiosity! The only reward is the data...
docs.google.com docs.google.com

And here is the accompanying video:
 
Can't access it at work, but I'll hit it up later at home.

Might be a big gap between "Most Favourite" and "Most played". I've played a fair bit of D&D but it's not that high on my preferred systems or settings.
 
Time is passing me by. Rolemaster isn't an option without a write-in; Corny Gron and Thirsty Sword Lesbians are.

It also matters how finely you slice editions. I'm curious to see how the total of all OSR retro-clones and pre-3e D&D editions compares to later editions, or the total of the various nu-skool arthaus things, though I have no expectation of any one clone or arthaus entry giving 5e a run for its money.

I can throw Traveller a vote in complete honesty, but my inner autist also wants to say it's a matter of horses for courses. I like Traveller for sci fi, old school D&D for fantasy, and Savage Worlds for anything and everything in the middle. It's hard to separate a real lasting favorite from just what I'm currently into.

rinku said:
I've played a fair bit of D&D but it's not that high on my preferred systems or settings.
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It's hard to beat the network effect of being the largest game. Easiest game to find as a player, easiest to find players for, the game brand new players are most likely to ask about...
 
Let's not be nasty about it. The kids are all right, boomer.

I can genuinely cite Mongoose 2e as my favourite system of all time, as it is my preferred version of what was my first and formative one (CT 77).

I've mostly only Refereed Traveller though. In terms of being a player it probably goes Champions 3rd edition, 1e West End Star Wars and AD&D. But of all of those I never did run a D&D game.

Edit: Oops, forgot to include Pendragon in that list, which really is my number 2 both for play and running it.

(Good thing he didn't split Traveller up by edition... ;))
 
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Bob's topics are primarily aimed at a 5e audience, so he's right to expect his audience to be into 5e.


Anyway, Traveller and Ars Magica are my two favorites and most played games. D&D got a lot of play time in the 1980s, but not since.

Plenty of other games I really like and will always happily play: Bastionland (Mythic & Electric), City of Mist, Technoir, Blades in the Dark, Apocalypse World probably have the most playtime in that category (still dwarfed by ArsM & Traveller). Always keen to try new games, especially on the character-centric/narrative side of the spectrum. About to start a campaign of the The Between this coming week.
 
Interestingly enough, his earlier surveys showed a much lower D&D engagement than you'd think. But as the question is *favourite* system not *most played system*, that may be why.
 
There's also a division between "most favorite to play" and "most favourite to run" that could be explored.
 
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