WotC "D&D's Best Year Yet"

[Morrus]

I'm not seeing it on official D&D FB and Twitter pages.

It's on a few news sites too.

 

[atanakar]

It's on a few news sites too.

Found it on GeekNative.

 

[Zio_the_dark]

Looking at the Age numbers, they add up to 100%. So 46+ are not included at all and those numbers are how everyone 45 and under splits out. Who know how may active players there are who are over 45.

Probably because if they included 46+ with rounding there would be no other category

 

[Ruin Explorer]

These are great figures, but like, do I have to stop playing D&D in 3 years? Is some guy going to come around and tear up my PHB? Because I'm really getting that vibe from the age chart. It's kinda dystopian that it just cuts off at 45. I'm pretty sure there must be a fair number of 45-60 D&D players out there (not just here!).

Maybe they believe anyone over 45 play TSR editions and can't be bothered with 5e. WRONG !!!! I answer their surveys regularly and state my age.

This seems unlikely to be a belief given someone who was 20 when 3E came out would be 40 now (Terrifying Facts.com)

(Also like, thanks Ruin Explorer, for writing a post that disturbs yourself every time you look at it!)

Probably because if they included 46+ with rounding there would be no other category

I was kind of wondering if it was just like, disturbingly large, but if 40-45 is only 11%, I guess 46-50 can't be that much bigger than that (or can it?!).

 

[billd91]

What? The 46+ Demographic is a rounding error?

That age cohort pie chart is a mess.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

That age cohort pie chart is a mess.

It just begs so many questions and so amusing potential answers. They have definitely not heard the last about that. Jeremy Crawford is probably sighing as his inbox fills up at this very minute.

 

[darjr]

If you don't mind me asking, what state/city do you live?

Omaha, Nebraska, USA

If I do the tour thing I’ll hold a seat for you. Uh assuming you can make it.

 

[atanakar]

These are great figures, but like, do I have to stop playing D&D in 3 years? Is some guy going to come around and tear up my PHB? Because I'm really getting that vibe from the age chart. It's kinda dystopian that it just cuts off at 45. I'm pretty sure there must be a fair number of 45-60 D&D players out there (not just here!).

This seems unlikely to be a belief given someone who was 20 when 3E came out would be 40 now (Terrifying Facts.com)

(Also like, thanks Ruin Explorer, for writing a post that disturbs yourself every time you look at it!)

I was kind of wondering if it was just like, disturbingly large, but if 40-45 is only 11%, I guess 46-50 can't be that much bigger than that (or can it?!).

I was thinking about the age of 3e the other day because of the 3.5 thread. It is 20 years old, already. WoTC has owned D&D for almost the same number of years than TSR !

 

[Parmandur]

Yeah, it is quite likely that D&D has its 7th straight year of growth, while unfortunately the FLGS suffer

My local comic/games store is still open, delivers to the door even. Already ordered Theros locally.

 

[Enevhar Aldarion]

It's on a few news sites too.

I looked at the artist's website and no sign of it there. I even did a google image search with the company name and actual artist name and still nothing. So strange, though my search skills are not what they used to be. lol