D&D 5E (2014) 40% of 5e D&D players are 25 years old or younger

[Ancalagon]

(note: I looked for this topic on the front page, I hope I didn't miss it!)

Forty Percent of Dungeons & Dragons Players Are 25 or Younger

Dungeons & Dragons is experiencing a major youth movement right now, with 40% of players being 25 years or younger. Earlier this month, Wizards of the Coast released several statistics about the Dungeons & Dragons playerbase, revealing that its core player group was much younger than expected...

comicbook.com

It was my impression that there were a lot of new, young players, but I didn't realize it was this much!

 

[Rikka66]

WotC - 2020 Was The Best Year Ever For Dungeons & Dragons

https://www.forbes.com/sites/robwieland/2021/05/19/2020-was-the-best-year-ever-for-dungeons--dragons/?sh=167372b54f37 Full article in the link.

www.enworld.org

Not trying to drag you or by linking that, just thought you'd be interested since a lot of discussion on this topic happened in that thread.

Your article is actually older, interestingly. And as far as I can tell has no citations or sources, so no wonder it didn't gain traction.

Wizards of the Coast also noted that sales of their introductory Boxed Sets (which can be found in mainstream retail stores like Target and Wal-Mart) have grown by 300% year over year, and that over 4.3 billion minutes of D&D content has been viewed on Twitch. Viewership of D&D programs has also increased by 65% on YouTube compared to previous years.

That bit is news to me. Or at least the specific statistics are.

 

[Morrus]

Your article is actually older, interestingly.

That's because it's last's year's (2020's) article with stats for 2019, which I covered a year ago here (in April 2020):

WotC - Comparing EN World's Demographics to the D&D Community's

WotC released some figures this week. I thought it would be fun to compare them to the demographics of our own little community here on EN World for the same period (2019). WotC uses a metric it refers to as 40,000,000 'D&D Fans', but that's not defined. For the purposes of this, I assume a fan...

www.enworld.org

Your link is 2021's equivalent, the more recent article with up to date stats.

@Ancalagon the reason you can't find it is because it's about 2019 and you have to scroll back over a year! But the other link above from @Rikka66 has 2021's stats for 2020.

 

[Ancalagon]

ouch - well at least @Rikka66 got something out of it so it wasn't a complete waste of time... sorry

 

[Stalker0]

Is there a stat that shows what the age breakdown is for gamers in general? 40% is not significant, if 40% of ALL RPG gamers are 25 or under.

 

[Zardnaar]

Figured it would be higher.

 

[commandercrud]

Is this even a surprising statistic? Seems totally obvious.

 

[Shiroiken]

Is this even a surprising statistic? Seems totally obvious.

Same. Younger people have more free time, and I know a lot of casual gamers fall off once they get married and start having kids.

 

[abirdcall]

Is there a stat that shows what the age breakdown is for gamers in general? 40% is not significant, if 40% of ALL RPG gamers are 25 or under.

I would expect players of other RPGs to be older but their numbers are so few that it wouldn't have much impact on the overall breakdown.

 

[Disgruntled Hobbit]

Figured it would be higher.

It's 36% based on the current chart
But they stopped counting kids aged 8-14, but 8-12 was 12% in 2020