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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 8816730" data-attributes="member: 42582"><p>[USER=7029930]@AnotherGuy[/USER]</p><p></p><p>Presumably WotC is aiming for sales of their new DL book in the 10s of 1000s. (I don't have any precise sense of sales figures, but that's my very ballpark guestimate.)</p><p></p><p>DL fans who fill in surveys in the sort of detail you describe don't seem to me like the make up that sort of audience. That's not any sort of criticism of those fans - just a fact about what I would guess their preponderance is in the contemporary world of D&D customers.</p><p></p><p>The last person I personally knew to buy a copy of The Wild Beyond Witchlight was my teenage niece. She knows nothing about the Feywild, or controversies over the planes associated with 4e D&D. She knows almost nothing about the history of D&D as a system. When I ran a session of In A Wicked Age that she participated in, her portrayal of her character was full of anachronism and exaggeration (she was playing a tyrannical warlord who armed himself from his "wall of axes" and who was accompanied by his cat, Mr Fluffington).</p><p></p><p>The last person I spoke to about building a D&D character was my teenage daughter. She wanted to play her tabaxi bard but a friend in the group had already occupied that niche and so she was building some sort of barbarian instead. The last time I heard her talk about her actual play there were hijinks involving a PC goblin.</p><p></p><p>Perhaps I'm way out of touch, but it seems to me that these are the sorts of people that WotC has to persuade to purchase a new DL book. Not the only sorts, but nevertheless a significant part of the contemporary market for D&D products. And what I think will sell them on DL is knights and dragons and lances and romance and epic heroism. Not the presence or absence of Orcs.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 8816730, member: 42582"] [USER=7029930]@AnotherGuy[/USER] Presumably WotC is aiming for sales of their new DL book in the 10s of 1000s. (I don't have any precise sense of sales figures, but that's my very ballpark guestimate.) DL fans who fill in surveys in the sort of detail you describe don't seem to me like the make up that sort of audience. That's not any sort of criticism of those fans - just a fact about what I would guess their preponderance is in the contemporary world of D&D customers. The last person I personally knew to buy a copy of The Wild Beyond Witchlight was my teenage niece. She knows nothing about the Feywild, or controversies over the planes associated with 4e D&D. She knows almost nothing about the history of D&D as a system. When I ran a session of In A Wicked Age that she participated in, her portrayal of her character was full of anachronism and exaggeration (she was playing a tyrannical warlord who armed himself from his "wall of axes" and who was accompanied by his cat, Mr Fluffington). The last person I spoke to about building a D&D character was my teenage daughter. She wanted to play her tabaxi bard but a friend in the group had already occupied that niche and so she was building some sort of barbarian instead. The last time I heard her talk about her actual play there were hijinks involving a PC goblin. Perhaps I'm way out of touch, but it seems to me that these are the sorts of people that WotC has to persuade to purchase a new DL book. Not the only sorts, but nevertheless a significant part of the contemporary market for D&D products. And what I think will sell them on DL is knights and dragons and lances and romance and epic heroism. Not the presence or absence of Orcs. [/QUOTE]
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