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<blockquote data-quote="Emerikol" data-source="post: 8239544" data-attributes="member: 6698278"><p>Here is a way to look at it.</p><p></p><p>In 1982, no one at the age I am at right now was playing D&D. I have vastly more disposable income right now than I did in 1982. I cleared snow covered driveways in the late 70's at 2 dollars a driveway if that tells you anything. So the spread across the age range has definitely expanded and that is pretty true whatever the edition. The younger crowd joins up and the older crowd continues. We haven't yet reached the point where the early players are dying of old age. That will of course stabilize the in and the out.</p><p></p><p>Now having said that, I believe in the USA and adjusting for population, that the new group in the early 80's and probably in some areas even the late 70's, was larger and the game more widely known across people in that age group. I'd venture to say that you'd have a hard time getting fifty people out of my four hundred graduating class that hadn't heard of the game. I'm guess a 100 at least played it. And I lived in a rural area that was behind the times on most anything.</p><p></p><p>So that brand new group of middle/high school kids was bigger then than it ever has been. What we have now though is we have a lot larger age range of people who play the game. And those other age ranges have more money. And even that younger age range probably is given more money than we got as kids from our parents. I mean I'm a grandpa so that band has expanded.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Emerikol, post: 8239544, member: 6698278"] Here is a way to look at it. In 1982, no one at the age I am at right now was playing D&D. I have vastly more disposable income right now than I did in 1982. I cleared snow covered driveways in the late 70's at 2 dollars a driveway if that tells you anything. So the spread across the age range has definitely expanded and that is pretty true whatever the edition. The younger crowd joins up and the older crowd continues. We haven't yet reached the point where the early players are dying of old age. That will of course stabilize the in and the out. Now having said that, I believe in the USA and adjusting for population, that the new group in the early 80's and probably in some areas even the late 70's, was larger and the game more widely known across people in that age group. I'd venture to say that you'd have a hard time getting fifty people out of my four hundred graduating class that hadn't heard of the game. I'm guess a 100 at least played it. And I lived in a rural area that was behind the times on most anything. So that brand new group of middle/high school kids was bigger then than it ever has been. What we have now though is we have a lot larger age range of people who play the game. And those other age ranges have more money. And even that younger age range probably is given more money than we got as kids from our parents. I mean I'm a grandpa so that band has expanded. [/QUOTE]
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