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Forked Thread: [Ryan Dancey's D&D Death Spiral] - D&D doomed to cult status?
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<blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 4748129" data-attributes="member: 22779"><p>This is the problem with gaming anecdotes. Of my current group of 7, 2 are under 20, 3 are in their 20's and two are in their 30's. That span of age has been consistent for me for several years now, both in online games and face to face.</p><p></p><p>Let's take another statistic, FWIW. When Dragon did their last reader survey (at least that they released information for), the Dragon readership was still averaging in their early 20's. IIRC, the difference was maybe a year or two in respondant average ages. 23, 24? I'm sure someone out there has that issue as well.</p><p></p><p>If the age of gamers was shifting radically, considering the Dragon surveys were several years apart, shouldn't the average age also have drifted upwards considerably?</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Well, until Peter Jackson came along, I would say you were wrong. No one outside of the fantasy genre bothered to read LOTR, other than if they were forced to at Uni - nothing like having an Oxford Professor get his book onto Uni reading lists - and in the 1970's, the fantasy genre was a tiny subgenre of SF. It's not until the 80's that fantasy as a genre takes off. </p><p></p><p>So, yeah, until the movie came out, I would definitely say that LOTR, was a cult status read.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hussar, post: 4748129, member: 22779"] This is the problem with gaming anecdotes. Of my current group of 7, 2 are under 20, 3 are in their 20's and two are in their 30's. That span of age has been consistent for me for several years now, both in online games and face to face. Let's take another statistic, FWIW. When Dragon did their last reader survey (at least that they released information for), the Dragon readership was still averaging in their early 20's. IIRC, the difference was maybe a year or two in respondant average ages. 23, 24? I'm sure someone out there has that issue as well. If the age of gamers was shifting radically, considering the Dragon surveys were several years apart, shouldn't the average age also have drifted upwards considerably? Well, until Peter Jackson came along, I would say you were wrong. No one outside of the fantasy genre bothered to read LOTR, other than if they were forced to at Uni - nothing like having an Oxford Professor get his book onto Uni reading lists - and in the 1970's, the fantasy genre was a tiny subgenre of SF. It's not until the 80's that fantasy as a genre takes off. So, yeah, until the movie came out, I would definitely say that LOTR, was a cult status read. [/QUOTE]
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