D&D 5E How many gamers ACTUALLY play in AL?

[mflayermonk]

As I said up-thread, it effectively doesn't exist in my world.

I'm not saying your estimate is wrong, since I don't know the actual numbers. It just seems that 5,000 is really low. But then, maybe that's because AL is really small.

I'm just guesstimating based on my region.

My local con has about 2000 guests. Of these guests, 130ish play AL, 130ish play Pathfinder, and about 70 play an RPG not of those two. That is about 6.5% of local con attendees participating in AL.

Gencon has something like 50,000 attendees. The interactive has about 85-100 tables, 8 AL participants each, so that event might have 680 to 800 AL participants-which is something like 1.6% of Gencon attendees.

 

[CapnZapp]

Your assertion makes no sense. It is WotC that has been making the AL Official material.... 30 adventures a year, plus 4 Epic adventures a year.

Sure seems to be compatible with their strategy....

The complaint is that this is not enough. These players want AL sanctioned versions for lots more classes and races than is available.

My point is: lots more classes and races than *will* be available.

 

[MerricB]

Gencon has something like 50,000 attendees. The interactive has about 85-100 tables, 8 AL participants each, so that event might have 680 to 800 AL participants-which is something like 1.6% of Gencon attendees.

The interactive has capped spaces. There was a lot more D&D/AL gaming going on than just the interactive.

 

[delericho]

I'm just guesstimating based on my region.

Yep, and I was working from the total no of regular players. So, my top-down guesstimate vs your bottom-up one.

Reality is probably somewhere in the middle. It usually is.

Gencon has something like 50,000 attendees. The interactive has about 85-100 tables, 8 AL participants each, so that event might have 680 to 800 AL participants-which is something like 1.6% of Gencon attendees.

That assumes that everyone who wanted a spot at an AL game got one, and also that everyone who plays AL wanted to play it at the con.

That said, 1.6% of 1 million gamers is 16k for AL. So, maybe you're onto something there...

 

[Mithreinmaethor]

The D&D Adventurers League Facebook is mainly for Organizers although a few players can be found there as well by the way.

 

[Doctor Futurity]

I've never played any AL or RPGA before it, nor have any of my players in my two groups (about 14 total players), but last night we had a guest player come over to play with us since his AL group melted down for the holiday weekend so we had him play with us. There are 2 or 3 AL tables weekly in our FLGS apparently, although where they stash them I have no idea because from where we sit it looks like our group plus a vast sea of Magic players as far as the eye can see. There must be hidden tables I don't know about.

 

[Mistwell]

We started playing in a local game store about a month ago with just four players. Prior to that the game store never had D&D games played there.

Last night we burst the seams and had to jump to two tables, as 9 players showed up - and that was with several people missing that day. We may hit three tables soon...someone else will have to DM.

The entire thing happened due to Magic the Gathering players seeing us play in the store, and wanting to try it out. They get hooked, keep coming back, and bring their friends the next time. Kids who played 3e or 4e once or twice or never. Dads who played AD&D and have not played since.

So it will be three tables, in a store that had zero just a month ago. This system works. If you play it, they will come.

 

[delericho]

So it will be three tables, in a store that had zero just a month ago. This system works. If you play it, they will come.

Yep. And my experience with setting up a D&D Meetup group is that the more active the group is, the easier it is to attract new players. Success breeds success.

 

[Warmaster Horus]

The complaint is that this is not enough. These players want AL sanctioned versions for lots more classes and races than is available.

My point is: lots more classes and races than *will* be available.

I play AL and could care less about any of that, so be careful what you assert other people want.

 

[Coredump]

My last LGS we normally had two tables of 5ish running; lets call it 6-8 fairly regular, and another 6-8 occassionals.... Including the DM's, there is 2 people that go to conventions with any regularity. From the other 2 stores I have played in, that ratio seems to hold up pretty well.

Going to conventions is a *small* minority of AL players.



As for 'how many' in total... also depends on how you calculate? The guy that comes once a month? the guy that comes 5 times a year?

The guy that comes twice a week? (My current group has about 6-10 people that come twice a week)