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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Scurvy_Platypus" data-source="post: 5348396" data-attributes="member: 43283">There's very little hard information given. I also have very little inclination to speculate.However we do have a "possibly inflated" number of 6 million D&D players as of a survey done by WotC in 2007. It's mentioned in this article:<a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23903817/" target="_blank">'Dungeons & Dragons' fights for its future - Technology & science - Games - msnbc.com</a>While 6 million might be inflated, I seem to recall that being the same number used by WotC when they took the "pirates" to court over the distribution of their pdfs.What the breakdown of that is by edition? No clue and don't especially care. I'm not aware of Paizo talking about its print runs, so guestimating the numbers by relying on that recent report about 4e and Pathfinder being close to the same in sales isn't especially useful:<a href="http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/18504.html" target="_blank">ICv2 - Top 5 RPGs--Q3 2010</a>Here's something to ponder... Take 6 million as the number. Now, look at the number of users registered here and at rpg.net. Assume that each and every single account registered belongs to a unique individual (no sock puppets, no cross-overs between the two sites) and further, that each account is an active account (active poster and that none of the accounts are banned). And then go ahead and assume that each and every single person is an active D&D gamer.Rpg.net: 48,988ENWorld: 95,163Total: 144,151That's a tiny fraction of D&D folks. Not sure what the number of users over at WotC forums are, but there's a pretty significant chunk that doesn't bother with forums it seems.</blockquote>

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