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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jester David" data-source="post: 7973959" data-attributes="member: 37579">Someone who was 20 when 3e came out would be in that 11%, but anyone who was 18 and in college would be in the segment below. Or got into D&D 3e in the year or two after when there was a surge of new players. The 3e era is probably better covered by the 15% that is 35-39.But it is odd that the percentage of the audience that played 1e/2e is so small. I imagine you're partially right with #1. People drifted away from the game, found "adult" hobbies, had trouble finding groups, and got busy with work and kids and then grandkids. Being a 40yo myself and looking for new games right now it is hard. Because I don't want to play with a bunch of awkward over-excited 15yos. (Tried a LGS and had a problematic experience.)It might also be a sample bias. The people 40 or 50 or even 60yo are less likely to hang around game stores, get D&D Beyond accounts, frequent Facebook and the like. Many might have solid and reliable gaming groups they've been with for a decades or two of adulthood and effectively play the game invisibly. But I think another factor is the sheer number of new players that have come in. Sales of PHBs have reportedly doubled twice in recent years and with that the audience, and that's principally in the lower demographics. Which is going to skew the data. That WotC felt the need to break-up the under-25 data into so many tiers speaks to that, rather than just having a <25 slice.Like how every other RPG deems to be steadily declining in popularity on Roll20, when they're really growing but D&D is just growing that much faster.</blockquote>

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