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<blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 4747699" data-attributes="member: 22779"><p>This meme has been around for as long as I can remember and it's been shot down any number of times. D&D is NOT smaller than it was back in the day. There are estimates of D&D players pegging regular players at around 3 million players currently. </p><p></p><p>How anyone can post on a forum with 80 000 + members and claim that D&D is dying off is beyond me. </p><p></p><p>No, we are not in the twilight of gaming. Sure, there was a two or three year spike when the game was a fad. Sure, those numbers, for that very brief span of time might have been bigger than now. But, the vast majority of those players dropped the hobby very quickly.</p><p></p><p>If they hadn't, we would STILL be playing 1e.</p><p></p><p>Is D&D as big as it was during the height of the fad? Maybe not. But, I will stand by the idea that we have far and away more dedicated players now than back then. People for whom gaming is a major hobby and not just something they got for Christmas, played three times and never looked at again.</p><p></p><p>I really, really hate the simplicity of this idea. That because we sold more PHB's back in the day, no version of D&D ever really measure's up. It's ridiculous. It's like saying all video games are a pale shadow of the popularity of Space Invaders since no game since has ever caused a coin shortage in Japan.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hussar, post: 4747699, member: 22779"] This meme has been around for as long as I can remember and it's been shot down any number of times. D&D is NOT smaller than it was back in the day. There are estimates of D&D players pegging regular players at around 3 million players currently. How anyone can post on a forum with 80 000 + members and claim that D&D is dying off is beyond me. No, we are not in the twilight of gaming. Sure, there was a two or three year spike when the game was a fad. Sure, those numbers, for that very brief span of time might have been bigger than now. But, the vast majority of those players dropped the hobby very quickly. If they hadn't, we would STILL be playing 1e. Is D&D as big as it was during the height of the fad? Maybe not. But, I will stand by the idea that we have far and away more dedicated players now than back then. People for whom gaming is a major hobby and not just something they got for Christmas, played three times and never looked at again. I really, really hate the simplicity of this idea. That because we sold more PHB's back in the day, no version of D&D ever really measure's up. It's ridiculous. It's like saying all video games are a pale shadow of the popularity of Space Invaders since no game since has ever caused a coin shortage in Japan. [/QUOTE]
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