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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thunderfoot" data-source="post: 8548838" data-attributes="member: 34175"><p>As someone that lived through the Satanic Panic in the 80s.  I would say it was somewhere dur8ng the 3e/3.5  rebirth.  I watched attendance at GenCon go from roughly 15k in 2007 to roughly 40k in 2014..  I believe the attendance in 2017 was close to 58k. THAT's an incedible amount of growth.  And just to bring that into sharper focus, the Indy Convention Center's complete reno and expansion was due almost entirely due to GenCon.  The hotels were driven by the NFL but their insistence on expanding conference rooms was strictly gaming related.  Soon after Indy Comic Con built on that.  It would be kind of silly to ignore that barometer.  So while 5e may be building on the lull created by 4e, the nerd revolution was already in full bloom.</p></blockquote><p></p>