Period: 1 January 2025 through 31 January 2025, inclusive. Role-Playing Games Holy inter-planetary yardstick Batman! It is a new year already.
As of January 31 2025, DreamLyrics had 17 active games spread across the five message game categories. For a game to be considered active it must have had at least one post during the calendar month. Note that gallery forums are excluded from this count.
Which sections, or game genre, had the most activity? ‘Games’ in the charts below refers to the number of games in the category. ‘Posts’ refers to the total number of posts for all the games in the category.
Section Games Posts
Fantasy 8(nc) 505
Modern/Historical 4(nc) 234
Horror 2(nc) 61
Alternate Reality 1(nc) 30
Science Fiction 2(nc) 24
TOTALS 17(nc) 854
These 17 active games involved 854 messages. The count for this month represents about 50 messages per game.
Of course, averages hide all the interesting variation. Which games were most active?
Here are the top 10 games in terms of number of posts
Game Posts Prior
1 JTM: Joining The Musketeers 159 3
2 SKT: The Storm King's Thunder 140 1
3 TCS: The Crystal Shard 93 2
4 TMV: The Misty Vale 59 11
5 DUC: Durham University Campus 55 6
6 SOS: Swords of the Serpentine 51 8
7 OSR: Orphans of the Sepulchural Regiment 47 10
8 RRL: Rise of the Rune Lords 47 4
9 MK2: Those Meddling Kids 41 7
10 OMD: Once Upon a Midnight Dark and Dreary 33 13
Here are the top 10 games in terms of word count:
Game Words Prior
1 SKT: The Storm King's Thunder 11222 1
2 JTM: Joining The Musketeers 10060 8
3 OSR: Orphans of the Sepulchural Regiment 6831 3
4 ARL: All Roads Lead 6221 2
5 TCS: The Crystal Shard 4749 5
6 SOS: Swords of the Serpentine 3897 7
7 DUC: Durham University Campus 3665 4
8 TMV: The Misty Vale 2143 13
9 MK2: Those Meddling Kids 2053 6
10 EOS: Echos of Silence 1841 -
In addition to the role-playing games, DreamLyrics features several other games and general chat areas. What other games? Take a look. You’ll find most of this action in the Fun & Games section.
Game/Activity Posts
1 AGN: Again! 235
2 MCE: Mission Control Exploration 219
3 RBW: Rainbow 165
4 ACR: ACRO 111
5 NMC: Neverending Movie Chain 54
6 SIX: 6 Takes 30
7 YTZ: Yahtzee! 23
8 TCC: The Comedy Club 9
How many active players do we have here in the DreamLyrics community? If you look on the main message page, you'll see the name of our newest member and a number indicating how many members. That number is a trifle misleading since it includes a few test members, used by our sysops and developers as they test out various enhancements.
This list shows our game masters and how many games they moderate. Please note that there are some games that have two people assigned as game masters, yet this chart does not indicate a specific GM’s activity for a given month when shared with another as some games might have the second GM acting as a player too.
Game Master Games
1 Pandemonium 5
2 Gypsy 3
3 Mina 3
4 AquaDyne 1
5 Zeim 1
6 Neptune 1
7 Vryx 1
8 KenSeg 1
9 Gryphon 1
10 Nivek 1
11 Asta 1
12 Art in the Blood 1
Here are the top 10 players in terms of number of posts:
Member Posts Prior
1 Gypsy 348 1
2 Miales 218 3
3 AquaDyne 159 2
4 Mina 130 4
5 Pandemonium 124 5
6 Alduin 120 7
7 Weez 101 6
8 Zeim 91 9
9 Vryx 72 11
10 Neptune 71 8
Here are the top 10 players in terms of word count:
Member Words Prior
1 Gypsy 20506 2
2 AquaDyne 10334 1
3 Vryx 7672 9
4 Miales 6225 4
5 Zeim 5943 7
6 Neptune 5345 3
7 Dugan 4762 6
8 Pandemonium 4611 5
9 Mina 4583 10
10 Alduin 3314 14
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Hope you enjoy this month’s breakdown. If there’s something additional or something different that you’d like to see let Dugan know (either here or via PM).
Until next month, I’ll be counting on you!
