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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9410159" data-attributes="member: 18">It's still a pretty big tent, but I'd argue D&D hasn't really ever been as big a tent as TSR and then WotC promoted it to be, and certainly what that tent covers well has moved over time (as one would expect).I think questions can be asked about the audience of D&D and how well the tent covers them. I think it's fair to say of the 30-50m people allegedly playing D&D right now, the tent covers the vast majority of them fairly well, with only a little rain blowing in from the side. But both WotC and D&D evangelists from social media promoted D&D as being a somewhat larger tent than that.Like I said, I think it's at most 5-10% of people who would realize the tent just didn't cover them here AND care enough to play a different game, and it's largely people who played older editions, so it's convenient for WotC and was convenient for D&D evangelists (now a dying breed on social media, where once they roamed like passenger pigeons in the 1600s so er I guess like passenger pigeons in the late 1800s!) to maintain this approach. I do think the convenience masks a longer-term issue but addressing longer-term issues is not something that publicly-owned corporations tend to be very interested in and I don't think it's reasonable to expect that to change.</blockquote>