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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mark" data-source="post: 951060" data-attributes="member: 5">Whoa, whoa, whoa, brother, man. No need to assume you know what I mean when I can simply tell you myself. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />My point about sales figures showing we are not representational of D&D players/consumers refers to a million D&D core books being sold and a mere fraction of that number of consumers being part of this community.  Those of us who are (you, I, and a number of others) might, like you, say we feel comfortable speaking for the other gamers we know from our gaming groups (not I, though) but even if we do speak for them that still represents a mere fraction.  I don't think that anyone could say with any certainty that we as a community speak as representational of D&D players (or further, gamers) as a whole.  We are simply too small in number to safely say we represent in microcosm the great number of gamers that exist.Taken a step further, that (much greater) number of people that have purchased the D&D core books but are not part of this community do not, as we do, access all of the information either because they cannot, they do not have time, they do not wish to do so, or any other number of reasons.  In that way the small fraction that is the EN World community (and if we are as comfortable as you say you are, our extended community but still small fraction through our gaming groups) are vastly more informed regarding the wide array of third party/d20 publisher products than that huge fraction that purchased the core D&D books.That's how the sales figures (without even quoting specific numbers) support the idea that we as a community are not representational of D&D players (and further, gamers) as a whole.I understand.  It's a strange and interesting time, isn't it? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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