WotC 2020 Was The Best Year Ever For Dungeons & Dragons

[Parmandur]

It's not that 40+ is dropping off. It's that the game is growing explosively among younger players, so the proportion of older players is smaller. There are still loads of them.

13% of 50 million is a lot of people.

 

[Steampunkette]

They confirmed that the 5E PHB outsold the 3E, 3.5 and 4E PHBs combined...like 2016. 5E is some magnitudes larger just in PHB sales by now, as it has only grown year to year since then.

That's not entirely accurate.

Mike Mearls tweeted that it outsold all the previous editions -individually- in August 2016.

We don't know how many it's sold -total-. But it's sold at -least- as much as any other edition +1 book.

 

[Sacrosanct]

13% of 50 million is a lot of people.

All I ask is for $1 from each

 

[darjr]

they had still lead the industry, pathfinder was mostly a WotC design.

 

[Dire Bare]

54% of active players are under 30. That's -amazing-.

It means the Grognards are -way- outnumbered! <3

Adventuring is a young person's sport, you're not likely to die in your sleep peacefully! Delve that dungeon, live fast, die young!

 

[Dire Bare]

I think it's great that people of all ages are playing and that 40% of the player base is female. I want the game to continue to succeed an grow.

However, I gotta admit I get tired of the term "Grognard" being tossed around. I find it kind of offensive to lump any category of gamers into a generic group. The term Grognard literally means "one who grumbles", it's an insult. Just as if I assumed all Gen Xers were the same [insert favorite stereotype here].

We have our older gamers in the community, and we also have our grognards (grumblers) . . . who aren't always older.

The term is sometimes used as a mild pejorative, but is also often used as a friendly tease on players who got their start during the old-school era. Try not to take offense where none is given. Ageism is a thing, but this is not that.

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

We have to remember older generations buy the new editions to play with their own children, to share their passion, or as gifts for the youngest members of the family to be an alternative and not always these playing with the "martian-killer" videoconsoles. There are other factors, as the promotion be means of the 80's cartoon, but more the hit videogames as Baldur's Gate and Newerwinter Nights, and in the last years, the success of Critical Role and other game-live streaming shows.

D&D needs to be loved by the new generations. And Hasbro's plans for D&D is not only for the TTRPG market but as multimedia franchise.

 

[billd91]

The first definition that comes up from google:

Noun. grognard m (plural grognards) a grumbler; one who grumbles. an old veteran soldier, specifically an old grenadier of the Imperial Guard (Grenadiers à pied de la Garde Impériale); an old complaining soldier.​

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Okay, so maybe I'm grumbling about being lumped in with grumblers, but calling older gamers grognards is never done in a positive way. It seems to always be used as an insult and "shut up old man, we don't care what you think". I just see it as a dismissive pejorative on a pretty regular basis.

I can assure you, grognard isn’t just used pejoratively - all you have to do is hang around with wargamers long enough to see that. Plus, they wouldn’t call a wargame community site grognard.com if it were just pejorative.
Considering Napoleon’s grognards were a highly respected formation that had won the right to complain openly, I’m more inclined to think that anyone using It pejoratively is actually fairly clueless about the connotations of the term.

 

[teitan]

As opposed to other editions? Wtf does this even mean?

perfect reply, just perfect!

 

[teitan]

54% of active players are under 30. That's -amazing-.

It means the Grognards are -way- outnumbered! <3

Don't be ageist.