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<blockquote data-quote="abirdcall" data-source="post: 7493898" data-attributes="member: 6748898">The major disconnect here with you and others who can't believe the numbers is that we're not talking about hobby gamers. Hobby gamers are not the majority of D&amp;D players.Recently there was a conversation with someone on this board who plays many games every year at the major conventions in the USA. They said they knew what the population base was like because they played with so many different people. I couldn't convince them that their scope is actually so minuscule as to not matter. Esp. as the samples come from people playing at conventions. Gen Con, the big convention, is only 60k.Side note - Players aren't distributed evenly between all population centres. That's just not how that works. If I had to guess, the larger the city, the larger the % of players there, more so if there are major schools there.Also, the population of North America is 579 million so 15 million is 2.5%.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="abirdcall, post: 7493898, member: 6748898"] The major disconnect here with you and others who can't believe the numbers is that we're not talking about hobby gamers. Hobby gamers are not the majority of D&D players. Recently there was a conversation with someone on this board who plays many games every year at the major conventions in the USA. They said they knew what the population base was like because they played with so many different people. I couldn't convince them that their scope is actually so minuscule as to not matter. Esp. as the samples come from people playing at conventions. Gen Con, the big convention, is only 60k. Side note - Players aren't distributed evenly between all population centres. That's just not how that works. If I had to guess, the larger the city, the larger the % of players there, more so if there are major schools there. Also, the population of North America is 579 million so 15 million is 2.5%. [/QUOTE]

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