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<blockquote data-quote="Jimmy Dick" data-source="post: 9234526" data-attributes="member: 6994416"><p>If anything is going to impact the community negatively, it will be to the OSR side of things. As an older gamer who got into the hobby in the 1970s, my generation is now in their 60s with some hitting their 70s and even a few hitting their 80s. I am seeing a lot more obituaries of my contemporaries. I'm also seeing more and more people in my generation having serious health issues that take up a lot of their time and prevent them from playing.</p><p></p><p>In the last seven years, I have been involved with a convention and have organized its Pathfinder and Starfinder events. When I first got involved with this, we had a lot of players, many of whom were around my age. After the pandemic, most of those people did not come back to the con. I've inquired about this with many of them. Some had died, some had found other things to occupy their time, but quite a few told me they were having health problems (not covid) that were just simply age related things. They couldn't physically attend the con. </p><p></p><p>Whether D&D does a new edition or not, that doesn't concern me as much as seeing my generation start to move out of the hobby. Most of the people I see playing OSR games are older. Very few younger folks are playing those games. They're mostly playing 5e, Pathfinder, or other 5e clones. This is why I anticipate seeing the OSR stuff seriously decline. I do not think it is that large of a market compared to the mainstream games but if there is any real significant decline in our hobby, I feel it will be in the OSR sector more than any other.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jimmy Dick, post: 9234526, member: 6994416"] If anything is going to impact the community negatively, it will be to the OSR side of things. As an older gamer who got into the hobby in the 1970s, my generation is now in their 60s with some hitting their 70s and even a few hitting their 80s. I am seeing a lot more obituaries of my contemporaries. I'm also seeing more and more people in my generation having serious health issues that take up a lot of their time and prevent them from playing. In the last seven years, I have been involved with a convention and have organized its Pathfinder and Starfinder events. When I first got involved with this, we had a lot of players, many of whom were around my age. After the pandemic, most of those people did not come back to the con. I've inquired about this with many of them. Some had died, some had found other things to occupy their time, but quite a few told me they were having health problems (not covid) that were just simply age related things. They couldn't physically attend the con. Whether D&D does a new edition or not, that doesn't concern me as much as seeing my generation start to move out of the hobby. Most of the people I see playing OSR games are older. Very few younger folks are playing those games. They're mostly playing 5e, Pathfinder, or other 5e clones. This is why I anticipate seeing the OSR stuff seriously decline. I do not think it is that large of a market compared to the mainstream games but if there is any real significant decline in our hobby, I feel it will be in the OSR sector more than any other. [/QUOTE]
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