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<blockquote data-quote="Rygar" data-source="post: 7761367" data-attributes="member: 6756765"><p>Does it?</p><p></p><p>How big is the player base of D&D? We could use the rather questionable 9 million number WOTC batted around awhile ago. What percentage of that is going to spend time watching someone else roll dice and pencil in numbers on a piece of paper? Keep in mind, this is the same thing as asking what percentage of people would be interested in watching a Magic the Gathering game. Which based on their more recent tournament (Worlds I think?) was 19,000 people* (Out of a player base of reportedly 20-30 million). So we can theorize that what we're looking at is a viewer rate of about what? 6,500 to 9,000? I don't think I'd call that either a draw or an audience. </p><p></p><p>Going into other RPG's, Pathfinder ends up a percentage of D&D, and everything else is going to number in the hundreds of people at best since their market penetration is really small.</p><p></p><p>I suspect we'll find that its popularity is embarrassingly small, and after 2-3 events we never hear about it again.</p><p></p><p>*Keep in mind too, with Magic the Gathering, there's a lot of incentive to watch. Learning new tricks, learning how to play better, or copying decks can literally make you money by winning in your area. And they still have a vanishingly small portion of their player base watching.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rygar, post: 7761367, member: 6756765"] Does it? How big is the player base of D&D? We could use the rather questionable 9 million number WOTC batted around awhile ago. What percentage of that is going to spend time watching someone else roll dice and pencil in numbers on a piece of paper? Keep in mind, this is the same thing as asking what percentage of people would be interested in watching a Magic the Gathering game. Which based on their more recent tournament (Worlds I think?) was 19,000 people* (Out of a player base of reportedly 20-30 million). So we can theorize that what we're looking at is a viewer rate of about what? 6,500 to 9,000? I don't think I'd call that either a draw or an audience. Going into other RPG's, Pathfinder ends up a percentage of D&D, and everything else is going to number in the hundreds of people at best since their market penetration is really small. I suspect we'll find that its popularity is embarrassingly small, and after 2-3 events we never hear about it again. *Keep in mind too, with Magic the Gathering, there's a lot of incentive to watch. Learning new tricks, learning how to play better, or copying decks can literally make you money by winning in your area. And they still have a vanishingly small portion of their player base watching. [/QUOTE]
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