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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Autumnal" data-source="post: 9234505" data-attributes="member: 6671663">I keep coming back to something a British Booktuber said about the 2023 Trans Pride Day in London. She said that wandering through the crowd, you could hear a constant flow of conversation about two topics: people’s trans experiences, and their D&D characters and campaigns.D&D has become a presence in the lives of a bunch of communities that may or not be visible or accessible to others. Lots of them are not gamers; they just play D&D with friends. What I mean by “not gamers” is that it’s not a huge part of their lives and not a significant party of their identity - if you ask them about what sort of person they are in I-am statements, roleplaying games won’t be on the list, or will be low on it and lightweight.People who are playing but are not gamers in sense of self have their own priorities and wishes. That doesn’t matter for most RPGs, just because the game’s total audience isn’t that large and almost always more contained within the gamer ecosystem. D&D’s uniquely large audience makes those non-gamer communities significant. And I’m pretty solidly convinced that doomsaying like Riggs’ is not considering.</blockquote>