WotC "D&D's Best Year Yet"

[darjr]

Robert Adducci shared some stats from a huge dnd 5e Facebook group.

 

[Parmandur]

Robert Adducci shared some stats from a huge dnd 5e Facebook group.

Facebook is old people social media now...speaking as someone who got in on the ground floor as a user while in College.

 

[darjr]

Git off my lawn!

 

[Parmandur]

Git off my lawn!

Though seriously, if you look at his data and assume an equal number of preteen and high school aged players can be added, it would end up close to WotC formal data...

 

[Son of the Serpent]

Likelyhood to answer or even see a survey that is near exclusively answered through online populations and engagement scales directly with age. I wonder what the popularity level looks like when corrected for that and also when ttrpg community size is taken into account (total ttrpg community size relative to solely dnd community size is something i practocally never see people accounting for when doing poularity analysis).

I just wish i could see a popularity report that took things like this into consideration. It would give a much better idea of what the actual nature of the growth was. I dont even care what year d&d is the most popular in im just kinda sick of never seeing the kind of analysis i just mentioned.

Hopefully its popularity is at an all time high. I just wish i could KNOW it to be the case. To my standards of precision.

 

[Son of the Serpent]

Nope, don’t recall ever meeting ya.

Are you impersonating me?
GET OFF MY IDENTITY!

 

[gyor]

Nope, don’t recall ever meeting ya.

It was the Canadian version of that guy.

 

[Ogre Mage]

Long live D&D! I am looking forward to what the 2020s will bring to the game. It's been different every decade.

 

[MichaelSomething]

I would like to note that there seems to be a heavy emphasis on online numbers (impression and stream views). Mainly because those things can be tracked. It's notoriously hard to find numbers on home games since they fly under the radar...

 

[Son of the Serpent]

I would like to note that there seems to be a heavy emphasis on online numbers (impression and stream views). Mainly because those things can be tracked. It's notoriously hard to find numbers on home games since they fly under the radar...

This is one of the main reasons (in combination with other reasons. This alone would obviously not suggest thay to me.) that i strongly suspect d&d's popularity actually not at its all time high (especially not its all time high in strength). I suspect there is massive popularity to be sure, but i suspect that its brittle.