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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GreyLord" data-source="post: 6982283" data-attributes="member: 4348">So, the last date on that is still 10 years ago.Source <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/19/tech/gaming-gadgets/dungeons-and-dragons-5th-edition/" target="_blank">http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/19/tech/gaming-gadgets/dungeons-and-dragons-5th-edition/</a>Total possible audience is FAR biggerSource <a href="http://home.nestor.minsk.by/game/news/2008/05/2101.html" target="_blank">http://home.nestor.minsk.by/game/news/2008/05/2101.html</a>The question then, is what counts as the size of our hobby?Is it relapsed players.  Is it ONLY those that are a counted as actively playing the most recent offerings and/or purchasing these things, or is it somewhere in between.If it is only those who are playing the more recent offerings, the numbers seem to have stayed relatively steady over the past few years so I would estimate somewhere between 4 million and 7 million, with those playing at least monthly somewhere between 3.5 and 6 million.If it is lapsed players included, I'd say it would be somewhere between 25 million and 30 million.If we include those who are still playing, though it may be AD&D, D&D (B/X, BECMI, or OD&D), or RPGs that are no longer sold and many who are no longer counted in these surveys because they do not bother with being included in the modern audiences, I'd guestimate that it is somewhere between 10 million and 12 million players.Those are just guestimates on my part, but I feel the hobby is currently in a time of expansion and we have grown the number of players recently.</blockquote>

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