Recent content by FitzTheRuke

I was going to comment on how I am not British but have family and friends there and have driven around there more than your average Brit probably does, but I am afraid that if I do, I will be labeled an "American".

To be fair, the answer to the Thread Title is: "No, obviously". There's not much more to be said there, so things drift.

Not really. I don't care at all how many "fans" D&D has. (I mean, as a game retailer, I care that it's popular, sure, but I don't care how that number is counted. I'm fine with it being vague). ... I'm honestly not entirely sure what dragged me in to this conversation, come to think of it.

Sure did.

I have. At best, folks have argued with the details of your argument, and said what basically amounts to: "IDK, maybe. Seems not totally impossible". I think you ought to take a step back and check if you're not doing the thing that you're claiming others are doing. Well, I think it's posted...

I haven't seen anyone say that they know what was meant by "fans". No one is trying to back up an 80 million claim.

What difference does it make? I'm not trying to claim that it's popular in Japan. When you brought it up, I remember it coming from WotC. I'm sure it does, but I couldn't point you to it. I wasn't the one who brought it up. I didn't believe it then and I don't believe it now, but yeah, WotC...

You seem to be drifting closer to the number all the time!

Dude. I've played D&D 5e in Japan. I'll grant that it's not super well known there, but you're flat-out wrong that 1e had a "bigger worldwide" impact than 5e has. 1e was translated into a fraction of the languages that 5e has been. The world is a bigger place than "The UK, USA, and Japan"...

I'm sorry, but this is an example of one of your assertions that makes you look like you have no idea what you're talking about. D&D's reach currently absolutely and completely destroys what it did in the 80's. And I've never heard anyone on this thread claim that they believed that D&D...

I don't think that's true. I don't think anyone believes that there are absolutely, totally, 80 million current D&D fans. I don't think others are misunderstanding what you're saying - I think that you are misunderstanding what they are saying. At most, people are arguing that the number is...

Yeah, I don't like everything about the current D&D, just like I didn't like everything about the previous versions of D&D (I've played them all), but I don't feel like it's trying to leave me behind. It just also has some stuff aimed at people who are either new or previously overlooked. And I...

It's dead, Jim!

Right, so way way more than than 85m. I think everyone agrees that Baseball is more popular than D&D.

Yeah, that makes sense, but I felt like it was worth repeating, because while we could never tell how many people were playing D&D based on the sales of the PHB (many groups had only one), we can rely on PHB sales to illustrate players even less now.