D&D General Gamer Stats From White Dwarf in the 80s

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jaycrockett

Explorer

• Jul 1, 2019

• #41

Champions wasn't a thing in the UK?

 

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Wrathamon

Adventurer

• Jul 1, 2019

• #42

Sacrosanct said:

A recent photo from my flgs. Not much has changed apparently

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and the one woman is hiding her face with her hand.

 

Paul Farquhar

Legend

• Jul 1, 2019

• #43

jaycrockett said:

Champions wasn't a think in the UK?

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It was, but I didn't own it. I think it was rather more complex than Goldern Heroes. And it didn't have a module called Queen Victoria and the Holy Grail (Golden Heroes was very British).

 

Sacrosanct

Legend

• Jul 1, 2019

• #44

Wrathamon said:

and the one woman is hiding her face with her hand.

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Not hiding. Just thinking. But that room is pretty full of white dudes.

 

jayoungr

Legend

Supporter

• Jul 1, 2019

• #45

Wrathamon said:

and the one woman is hiding her face with her hand.

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I see more than one woman in that picture.

Also, it looks like that's a Magic: the Gathering tournament, not an RPG day.

 

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Badabing

Explorer

• Jul 1, 2019

• #46

jmucchiello said:

I'm blanking on GH. I'm sure it'll end up being something I go 'oh, of course' but at the moment, No idea.

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Could be Golden Heroes - a Game Workshop super hero rpg

 

Sacrosanct

Legend

• Jul 1, 2019

• #47

jayoungr said:

I see more than one woman in that picture.

Also, it looks like that's a Magic: the Gathering tournament, not an RPG day.

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RPG day doesn’t have nearly the draw....

Also, demographics are pretty much the same.

 

Flexor the Mighty!

18/100 Strength!

• Jul 1, 2019

• #48

Looks pretty much like the shop I wargame at. Mostly white dudes with some women, maybe 20-25%. They do Vampire LARPing on Saturday nights though and I bet the crowd changes a bit more for that but maybe not.

Though in life I have yet to meet a woman who was into playing RPG to be honest, outside of said ladies at the shop I see or at Cons, most just dismiss it as nerdy games and find it a bit silly.

Oh well, to each their own.

 

Ian Danton

Explorer

• Jul 1, 2019

• #49

I have just found this in my stash of old White Dwarf magazines. I kept everything until they went 100% in house. It was number 85 published in January of 1987. I was 16 years old. I wish I could remember if I filled in the poll. Question 27 was which games would you like to see more/less of? Number one? Middle Earth Role-playing. Less than a year later of course they went all Warhammer. Mind you, they are one of the few print magazines still going, so apparently my purchase was not really required........

 

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John R Davis

Hero

• Jul 2, 2019

• #50

Second year at Uni. Definitely the time we played a lot of MERP and some Warhammer, I was a student in Nottingham so played with a lot of GW employees.
Simon Burley the author of GH is still around the UK RPG scene and still publishing rpgs