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Message: <blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 5341417" data-attributes="member: 22424">About a million active participants worldwide (including Pathfinder and the retro-clones as "D&D"). IIRC, that's the number WotC gave, and I see no reason to doubt it.Down from the height of 3e, but not by much. Down from the 80s by a lot. (I expect that the majority of that "20 million lapsed players" are probably from the 'fad' days.Retro-clone/Homebrew*: About 2%3e/3.5e/Pathfinder: About 40%4e/Essentials: About 65%* Homebrew includes RCFG, Lamentations of the Flame Princess, a SWSE-like "D&D", hybrid editions, and anything else that isn't a recognised edition (while clearly being "of the same stable").There's some overlap between the groups, which is why the percentages don't total 100%. (My guess is Pathfinder is about half as 'big' as 4e in terms of players, I suspect that Paizo have more people who buy everything, and I suspect that WotC makes more money from their 'average' customer by virtue of DDI subscriptions.)Oh, I also suspect that about 80% of players are 'satisfied' or 'very satisfied' with their game of choice, and that some 95% consider their game of choice to be 'the best of the available options' - even if they're not particularly satisfied, their preferred option doesn't really exist.</blockquote>