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<blockquote data-quote="Zardnaar" data-source="post: 7784013" data-attributes="member: 6716779"><p>You can't it's always gonna skew heavily towards males no matter what they do. </p><p></p><p> D&D would need to go mainstream, it's still a niche hobby. Wargamings not such a thing but games like magic, grand strategy, chess are still around and D&D appeals to them a bit and it's heavily male. </p><p></p><p> We don't really have a PlayStation moment which took games out of the bedroom into the living room. </p><p></p><p> Maybe 6E or more likely 7E. It's also heavily based on European mythology and history. It's never going to be popular in Asia, Africa. </p><p></p><p> You can change the presentation of course, 5E had already done that. A break out game or movie could help but modern D&D doesn't lend itself well to game adaptions AD&D was better), and it's tough as to make an original movie that performs well now. Movie and game development is also Uber expensive now. </p><p></p><p> It would need to be one bigger than magic and be worth billions realistically.</p><p></p><p> If they change things to much they lose their existing fans a'la 4E.</p><p></p><p> Another option would be sex and violence done well, Game of Thrones for example not WWF Attitude era.</p><p></p><p> Men and women also have different preferences. I turned my wife into a gamer, she never had consoles growing up and I didn't have a PC.</p><p></p><p> We have very different tastes in games though with very little crossover. I like political/strategic type games she likes Zelda and Crash Team Racing, I like Fallout 4, Stellaris and Crusader Kings II.</p><p></p><p> My 10 year old niece asked me to teach her though, my sister must have blabbed uncle Zard plays.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Zardnaar, post: 7784013, member: 6716779"] You can't it's always gonna skew heavily towards males no matter what they do. D&D would need to go mainstream, it's still a niche hobby. Wargamings not such a thing but games like magic, grand strategy, chess are still around and D&D appeals to them a bit and it's heavily male. We don't really have a PlayStation moment which took games out of the bedroom into the living room. Maybe 6E or more likely 7E. It's also heavily based on European mythology and history. It's never going to be popular in Asia, Africa. You can change the presentation of course, 5E had already done that. A break out game or movie could help but modern D&D doesn't lend itself well to game adaptions AD&D was better), and it's tough as to make an original movie that performs well now. Movie and game development is also Uber expensive now. It would need to be one bigger than magic and be worth billions realistically. If they change things to much they lose their existing fans a'la 4E. Another option would be sex and violence done well, Game of Thrones for example not WWF Attitude era. Men and women also have different preferences. I turned my wife into a gamer, she never had consoles growing up and I didn't have a PC. We have very different tastes in games though with very little crossover. I like political/strategic type games she likes Zelda and Crash Team Racing, I like Fallout 4, Stellaris and Crusader Kings II. My 10 year old niece asked me to teach her though, my sister must have blabbed uncle Zard plays. [/QUOTE]
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