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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8813095" data-attributes="member: 18">Right?It's a bizarre concept. The bulk of D&D players are like 17-29. The main media they consume is chock-full of heavy-duty lore that you're expected to internalize extremely quickly. Every show aimed at that age group is just full of piles of lore. And 30-45 is mostly watching and reading the same stuff.EDIT - As an aside, like, I have a significantly younger sister, and she's never been into nerdy stuff much, but she has been into the MCU since it existed, and really enjoyed the Watchmen TV show too, and I was absolutely blown away by how she and her friends absolutely knew like Watchmen (the comics) minutiae, stuff I'd forgotten despite having read it several times back in the day, and understood like what seemed to be pretty obscure points about Watchmen comics and the TV show interrelated and stuff. Like younger people? They're good at this stuff. They're at least as good at absorbing lore as we were, maybe better.It's like how, in the 1990s and earlier 2000s, a lot of TV execs didn't like any kind of fancy SF or fantasy show, because they thought people couldn't and wouldn't keep track of what was going on, they wanted everything introduced incredibly slowly and simplified as much as possible as a result (or just refused to do SF/fantasy shows). And like, maybe if you're talking about people who are over 65 now, and were in their later 40s and 50s then (like the execs!), that was true. But it very soon wasn't true, as things like GoT absolutely proved beyond a reasonable doubt.Now WotC is acting like TV execs from the 1990s. Why? God knows. They're not really that old, even if they are mostly in their early 50s.Same. If they go with that it'll be fine.</blockquote>

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