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<blockquote data-quote="billd91" data-source="post: 2742641" data-attributes="member: 3400"><p>D&D has never been just for kids, rather, they're a nice group to target in marketing because they have lots of time to fill up and generally have a fair amount of disposable income. It's a good way to build a base of life-long players. </p><p></p><p>I know a few people who thought of D&D as just an adolescent thing to do, but as you point out, so was listening to most rock music. And now, even grandmothers may be humming along to Led Zepplin and singing "Squeeze my lemon, until the juice runs down my leg." </p><p>How about that?</p><p>I actually saw wargames and RPGs as a chance to play more adult games with greater challenges and correspondingly greater feelings of accomplishment. </p><p></p><p>Realistically, sometimes people actually do move out of certain passtimes as they grow and mature. But a good many other passtimes grow old with us. We don't graduate out of liking rock music to liking crooners and Lawrence Welk. Chances are we don't quite "dig" all of the new innovations and styles that come after our time as we start to get more set in our ways, but that doesn't automatically mean rejection.</p><p>There's always some attrition as other things we encounter in our lives take precedence and that helps keep us aging players from being the prime marketing demographic, but I'm already hooked and too much marketing to me is just preaching to the choir.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="billd91, post: 2742641, member: 3400"] D&D has never been just for kids, rather, they're a nice group to target in marketing because they have lots of time to fill up and generally have a fair amount of disposable income. It's a good way to build a base of life-long players. I know a few people who thought of D&D as just an adolescent thing to do, but as you point out, so was listening to most rock music. And now, even grandmothers may be humming along to Led Zepplin and singing "Squeeze my lemon, until the juice runs down my leg." How about that? I actually saw wargames and RPGs as a chance to play more adult games with greater challenges and correspondingly greater feelings of accomplishment. Realistically, sometimes people actually do move out of certain passtimes as they grow and mature. But a good many other passtimes grow old with us. We don't graduate out of liking rock music to liking crooners and Lawrence Welk. Chances are we don't quite "dig" all of the new innovations and styles that come after our time as we start to get more set in our ways, but that doesn't automatically mean rejection. There's always some attrition as other things we encounter in our lives take precedence and that helps keep us aging players from being the prime marketing demographic, but I'm already hooked and too much marketing to me is just preaching to the choir. [/QUOTE]
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