WotC "D&D's Best Year Yet"

[Morrus]

BTW, I compared those stats with EN World's own 5.6M visitors in 2019:

WotC - Comparing EN World's Demographics to the D&D Community's

WotC released some figures this week. I thought it would be fun to compare them to the demographics of our own little community here on EN World for the same period (2019). WotC uses a metric it refers to as 40,000,000 'D&D Fans', but that's not defined. For the purposes of this, I assume a fan...

www.enworld.org

 

[Prakriti]

Did it feel like dnd best year to any of y’all?

Anecdotally, I see more and more 5E games on Roll20 all the time. When I started in 2016, there were usually 4-5 pages' worth of groups looking for more players. Right now there are 16. Part of that might be the quarantine at work, but from what I remember, 16 pages wasn't that out of the ordinary even before the pandemic struck.

From my perspective, the game just gets bigger and bigger, and 2019 was indeed the "best" year on Roll20 so far.

 

[Parmandur]

Did it feel like dnd best year to any of y’all?

Between Ghosts of Saltmarsh, Stranger Things, Acquisitions Incorporated, the Essentials Set, Descent into Avernus, Rick & Morty, and Eberron the product line was definitely on fire. Local reception continues to be energetic.

 

[Morrus]

Stranger Thongs

Man....

 

[Morrus]

Anecdotally, I see more and more 5E games on Roll20 all the time.

You don't have to be anecdotal about it. Roll20 shares the data.

Roll20 Reports First Drop For D&D

Roll20's latest stats are in. In terms of games run, D&D has shown its first drop since I last reported on Roll20's stats, from 51.87% in Q2 2019 to 47.54% in Q4 (although it is slightly higher than the 45% of Q3, which I missed!) Call of Cthulhu rises from 14.3% in Q2 to 15.3%, while Pathfinder...

www.enworld.org

 

[Parmandur]

Man....

Got a bit excited there, edited.

 

[Son of the Serpent]

Man....

I saw that too
Laughed my ass off about it