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Tuesday, May 13, 2008

RPG.net Gaming Index reaches 10,000 

On an industry mailing list, RPG.net's Shannon Appelcline wrote, "We hit a great milestone on the RPG.net Gaming Index last week: 10,000 unique books and magazines. When I consider that my old standby reference, Heroic Worlds, had about 3,600 entries, I'm amazed by both how much the industry has grown since then and how much data we've managed to collect in just a couple of years. At this point I'm pretty sure we have 90+% of printed RPGs, though a lesser percentage of magazines and PDFs." Here's the Skotos press release.

PARANOIA has always rated quite well on the RPG.net Index. At this writing, the current Mongoose edition stands at #34 out of 1,083 games in the Core Rules category, tied with the 2004 religious-apocalypse RPG Heaven & Earth (Event Horizons/Guardians of Order/Abstract Nova) and a hundredth-point behind indie masterworks Burning Wheel and Dogs in the Vineyard. PARANOIA is also #61 overall among 10,000 products -- actually 10,027 as I write, which shows how the Index continues to grow.

Thanks to all the registered RPG.net users who have voted for PARANOIA. Though I could exhort newcomers to visit the RPG.net Gaming Index page for PARANOIA and start industriously stuffing the ballot box, in fact the Index guards against such chicanery. Appelcline and RPG.net's Christopher Allen have posted many deep-thinking articles about systems for collective choice on Allen's fascinating but now-dormant blog, Life With Alacrity. These articles discuss specific measures to dilute the impact of "drive-by voting." So if you want to support PARANOIA, just grit your teeth and become an honest, upright member of the RPG.net community. Hey, you could do worse.
Posted by: Allen Varney / 8:46 PM

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