Poll Results
version 1.9 by Hervé Musseau

QSQWBEEEGGNFR Herve Musseau 
AOOWMEFFBG(SGY)IT Fabrizio Paoli 
O(OFS)OJPTEEBB(KGC)CA Daniel Boese 
QHQGMEEEBBGAU Shawn Stanley 
QOA(BGW)MEVVBB(KD)US Cthulhudrew, The Great Old One 
OSQJPETTKBKCO Jorge Villalobos 
Q(OH)Q(GW)AEEEBGKUS David 'Azure' Leland 
XSAWBEEEBB(IKGY)US Matthew Levy 
O(OFSH)O(GW)MEEEBB(BCW)US StarHawk 
OSWGB*VF(BG)B*US Leroy Van Camp III 
O(all)AJMDVOBBKUS Donna Beatrice Marie LaPlante DonnLaP@aol.com
XHQ(TG)ME(FE)(FE)BBKCA Kat Path 
OOW(BPTG)MTEEBBWUS Mischa E Gelman 
QOIJMTEFBGNPH Leonard Anthony P. Arcilla 
ASIGMEEEBBDCA Michael Andrew Cullingham" 
XOIGPEEE(BG)BNUS Alexander T. Knapp 
XHQGMEEEBGKUS Rob Rickard 
ASQJATFFGBANL M.M. Grootenboer 
QSQJBLEEBBDNL Laszko van Kessel 
OOQDAEEEBGKFI Petri "Peko" Hiltula hipehi@uta.fi
XSQJMTFOGBKCA Francois-Olivier Cote 
AOQWBEFFBGOFI Aleksei Andrievski 
OMOGATFFPG(KN)US David Melik 
XMQZMEEEBGKIT Diego Calugi 
QMQWPEEEBGOMX Enrique Pacheco 
XSQGPEEEBBKFR Marc-Antoine Guidault 
QOOWMEEEBBGU Sean Zehtab 
XOQWMLEEBBKIT Cristiano Perani 
OSOJALEOKPKCA Mario Laverdiere 
QMQJATEEBBOUS Greg Weatherup 
QSQJMLEEBBKBR Rafael Alves 
OMOGMLEFGBKCA Glen Sprigg 
XMQWMLEEBG(NG)US Martin Edwards 
OOQGSEEEGGOFI Jussi K. Kenkkil 
OSQDBLVVBBTUS Porphyrogenetus 
QOIGAEEEBGDCA Geoff Gander 
OMQJBLEEGGDUS Jerry Hovenanian 
OSQJMLEFKGCUS Ben Anderson 
OOOGMLOEGGSCA Erick-Noël Bouchard 


Analysis

1.I play in Mystara 
9X, 11Q, 4A, 15O.
Most people, including myself, play in Mystara quasi-exclusively or with 
other game systems.

2.I use the rules of
12O, 13S, 3H, 11M.
Some people use the rules of OD&D and some the rules of AD&D. However, most
people use a mix of all rules, including those from other game systems, with
Mystara, and some suggested that I should add an additional answer that fills
in the gap. I agree that it is missing, so there should be in a next version
of the quizz something like 'M = mix (best?) from all rules'.

3.My Mystara is 
8O, 22Q, 2W, 4I, 3A.
Most of us play with the official world of Mystara or someting not very 
different from it, although some do not like WotI or the Hollow World.
A non-negligeable number have their own version of Mystara.

4.I play in the time frame: 
2B, 1Z, 1P, 2T, 16G, 11W, 11J, 2D.
Many people have either different campaigns taking place at different time or
use time-travelling (generally to go back to Blackmoor and use the DA series).
However, most people play in the timeframe 1000-1013 AC, as could be guessed
since most Mystara stuff is designed for that period. More and more people
now play in the present, ie. PWA, JA or net-almanac timeframe.

5.Mystara and other AD&D worlds 
1S, 5P, 7B, 7A, 19M.
I knew the answer to this question when I wrote it: Most people don't care.
Those who care have the tendency to integrate Mystara in both Spelljammer and
Planescape, and they are the same that use the AD&D rules (who would have
guessed?).

6.I am 
7T, 20E, 10L, 1D.
Early twenties for the majority, it seems.

7.I play RPGs for 
1O, 1T, 4F, 29E, 4V.
Mostly old-timers. I know, many of us are in between, but...

8.I play Mystara for 
3O, 2T, 6F, 26E, 2V.
Mostly old-timers too.
This question is heavily correlated to the previous one, and to the one before.
How wonderful.
Also, I think that this is exactly the reason why the new AD&D Mystara line
was so much of a failure. A line for newbies... If they had made such a study
(called market study) they would have known that most of the Mystara fans were
old-timers, playing often for at least 10 years, and often very knowledgeable
about Mystara. They were not interested in newbie stuff, nor in rehashing of
the older stuff (esp. the good gazetteers), not to speak of the awful CDs 
(that only boosted the price, which is a wonderful idea if the target of the 
line are newbies that want to try before buying heavily and that have to ask
the money to their parents).

9.I discovered Mystara with 
27B, 10G, 1P, 3K.
As most of us are old-timer (remember the correlation stuff?), we play in 
Mystara since our first OD&D box...

10.I am a 
15G, 1P, 23B.
Most of us enjoy playing as well as mastering, although some of us (of which I
am--snif I can never play, nobody wants to be the master) don't.

11.I play primarily in 
17K, 1T, 6G, 1A, 1I, 5N, 2S, 5D, 2Y, 3C, 2W, 1B, 4O.
Karameikos (of course) and Glantri seem to have the favor of the Mystarans.
I was rather surprised that nobody plays primarily in Thyatis.
BTW, nobody told me that I forgot Blackmoor, although I was warned that I had
forgotten Ethengar and (how could I?) the Broken Lands. So, if you play in
Ethengar, put it with Heldann/Rockhome/etc (R), if you play in the Broken
Lands put it with the Shadow Elves (S), and if you play in old Blackmoor, add
'U = Blackmoor' (U like king Uther :) You didn't get it? You find it hard to
understand the logic behind my choice of code letters? Pretty simple though.)
Fabrizio Paoli has added his own opinion on this matter: 
Karameikos is the classic fantasy setting, it's the one introduced in the 
Basic/Expert books and you can play all classes there, so it's obviously very 
popular; Glantri is a heaven for magic lovers and many players are really fond 
of magic; Thyatis has nothing more than Karameikos (except the colonies, of 
course) and the so loved wizards, though not despised, aren't a favourite class 
there, moreover DotE is not as good as Gaz1 and Gaz3.

12.I'm from 
1AU, 1BR, 8CA, 1CO, 3FI, 2FR, 3IT, 1MX, 2NL, 1PH, 16US.
Americans, Americans. Are you that many online, are you that many playing
RPGs? Though the diversity of countries represented shows the international
character of Mystara.

Of course, you can continue to participate... (and update your answer if 
necessary and send me the new results).
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