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<blockquote data-quote="aramis erak" data-source="post: 9669219" data-attributes="member: 6779310">More than 90% of people I've gamed with own at least 2 RPGs. Almost everyone since 2008 has read at least part of the D&amp;D PHB or the SRD, or the D&amp;D Basic Rules. Even since about 2001, most have at least read part of the SRD. I'd say at least half of all the gamers I've played with since 1995 have at least one RPG downloaded from the internet... paid or free. Including people completely new to RPGing. It's not like the 1980s... where 20% of my players had a copy of whatever was being run unless it was AD&amp;D - and that because of the asinine advice of screwing players over for knowing the rules... even then, more than half had the PHB. It's changed a lot in the last decade, and I've had drop ins with no actual play who read at least two RPG corebooks in whole or major part. 3 of those for L5R. 5 for Star Wars (only one of whom had a legit rulebook). D&amp;D players are, generally, the least well read, but many of them compared Pathfinder from its SRD to the D&amp;D SRD. Then again, I get most of my players via them showing up at the store and being sent back to my group.Keep in mind: one can get into D&amp;D or Pathfinder with $0+Dice expenditure. And now, also Daggerheart - the printable cards are plain, but free, and the SRD is free... and quite a number of die rollers are free for android, windows, mac, ios, and linux. Hell, I released two die-rollers as donationware for PalmOS. (late 90's). Back in the early 2010's period, more than half my grade 5/6 students had played a tabletop roleplaying game; about 1/4 were actively playing, and most of those were playing Rifts. Rifts is an anomaly, due to a pawn shop doing brisk used Palladium books sales just to piss off Siembieda's lawyers...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="aramis erak, post: 9669219, member: 6779310"] More than 90% of people I've gamed with own at least 2 RPGs. Almost everyone since 2008 has read at least part of the D&D PHB or the SRD, or the D&D Basic Rules. Even since about 2001, most have at least read part of the SRD. I'd say at least half of all the gamers I've played with since 1995 have at least one RPG downloaded from the internet... paid or free. Including people completely new to RPGing. It's not like the 1980s... where 20% of my players had a copy of whatever was being run unless it was AD&D - and that because of the asinine advice of screwing players over for knowing the rules... even then, more than half had the PHB. It's changed a lot in the last decade, and I've had drop ins with no actual play who read at least two RPG corebooks in whole or major part. 3 of those for L5R. 5 for Star Wars (only one of whom had a legit rulebook). D&D players are, generally, the least well read, but many of them compared Pathfinder from its SRD to the D&D SRD. Then again, I get most of my players via them showing up at the store and being sent back to my group. Keep in mind: one can get into D&D or Pathfinder with $0+Dice expenditure. And now, also Daggerheart - the printable cards are plain, but free, and the SRD is free... and quite a number of die rollers are free for android, windows, mac, ios, and linux. Hell, I released two die-rollers as donationware for PalmOS. (late 90's). Back in the early 2010's period, more than half my grade 5/6 students had played a tabletop roleplaying game; about 1/4 were actively playing, and most of those were playing Rifts. Rifts is an anomaly, due to a pawn shop doing brisk used Palladium books sales just to piss off Siembieda's lawyers... [/QUOTE]

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