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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zardnaar" data-source="post: 7974163" data-attributes="member: 6716779">Disney might actually go under. They were heavily in debt, are borrowing more, income has plunged,  and both their main income streams are closed.Even if they can reopen the airline and cruise ship industries have collapsed. Their share price is also in free fall which leaves then open to a hostile take over.AMC us also on the brink so even if they can reopen movie theatre chains may not survive either so that sweet sweet MCU money will dry up. Big earner is the parks and hotels. They're closed, airline industry is collapsing so a lot less tourists even if they reopen.Ignoring the 26 million Americans that have become unemployed in the last month.The 40 milllion players iirc refers to every D&D player ever so looks good if you count 3E and golden age players as active.Absolute numbers are kinda what matters but cultural impact would be harder to define. Population is 50% bigger roughly.You can look at TSR sales adjust for inflation and compare with the RPG market now. 5E is roughly comparable to the Golden age so when they say it's the biggest seller they're not lying.  It's probably comparable to 1E and Red box combined.They had 3 good years in golden age, 5E had around 4.So it's probably a bit bigger for a bit longer. We don't know what % of TSR sales were D&D and what % of 2019 rpg market is 5Ebut 80-90% is probably a safe bet. RPG market is 4 or 5 times bigger now than pre 5E. Pre Covid as well.Golden age D&D TSR revenue inflation adjusted is similar to the size of the entire RPG market now. But that was two of the biggest selling D&D's ever combined.2019 would be the new peak IMHO. 2020s probably gonna be a bust though.</blockquote>

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