Sacrosanct
Legend
For the record, I started playing in 1981, and stuck with AD&D through the 3e and 4e eras. Now I'm almost exclusively a 5e player.
Are we in the golden age of the game?
The 70s: Age of discovery (birth of the game, imagination skyrocketed about what to include in the game)
80: Age of Controversy (satanic panic)
90s: The dark age (TSR dying and people leaving the game for others)
00-08s: The age of rebirth (WoTC bought the game and completely revamped it)
08-12: The fracturing age (4e fractured the player base, and many left for PF)
13-: The golden age
Are we in the golden age of the game?
- D&D popularity is skyrocketing, and showing up in popular media all over the place.
- The game accessibility is better than it's ever been, with both paper support and digital support.
- Accessories are more available than ever before, with everything from maps, to dice towers, to minis, to aps, to game tables. To me, it seems like we're in the golden age of D&D gaming.
The 70s: Age of discovery (birth of the game, imagination skyrocketed about what to include in the game)
80: Age of Controversy (satanic panic)
90s: The dark age (TSR dying and people leaving the game for others)
00-08s: The age of rebirth (WoTC bought the game and completely revamped it)
08-12: The fracturing age (4e fractured the player base, and many left for PF)
13-: The golden age