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<blockquote data-quote="David Argall" data-source="post: 621286" data-attributes="member: 4481">poll results57, and one who can recall pre ADD days.&nbsp;&nbsp; We can't conclude too much from our poll.&nbsp; As noted, we are the minority voluntary responses of the minority who frequent this one forum, who are the minority who are on the internet, who are ...&nbsp;&nbsp; That makes for a lot of ways we could get results entirely unrepresentative of the majority.&nbsp;&nbsp; Still...&nbsp;&nbsp; The cutoff after age forty fits the theory that you select your timewasing games in your teen years for the most part.&nbsp; When ADD PHB and DMG came out in 79, they hit the best sellers lists.&nbsp; So we expect nearly all our players to be under 20 in 1980, which makes them under 40 today.&nbsp; &nbsp; And we would expect to see smaller sets of youngsters coming into the game in succeeding years.&nbsp; So there is reason to worry about the long term health of the game.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Still, we are talking generations here, and there are possible good signs as well.&nbsp; The LOTR movies should be giving us a bump among other things, and we are talking in generations, which gives up plenty of time to recover.&nbsp; &nbsp; However, don't blame a lack of exposure for any decline.&nbsp; Note the Foxtrot comic strip uses D&amp;D play as one of its running gags.&nbsp; While the strip doesn't use much detail of the game, it assumes the reader has a general knowledge of what the game is.&nbsp; Our public is not all that ignorant.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="David Argall, post: 621286, member: 4481"] [b]poll results[/b] 57, and one who can recall pre ADD days. We can't conclude too much from our poll. As noted, we are the minority voluntary responses of the minority who frequent this one forum, who are the minority who are on the internet, who are ... That makes for a lot of ways we could get results entirely unrepresentative of the majority. Still... The cutoff after age forty fits the theory that you select your timewasing games in your teen years for the most part. When ADD PHB and DMG came out in 79, they hit the best sellers lists. So we expect nearly all our players to be under 20 in 1980, which makes them under 40 today. And we would expect to see smaller sets of youngsters coming into the game in succeeding years. So there is reason to worry about the long term health of the game. Still, we are talking generations here, and there are possible good signs as well. The LOTR movies should be giving us a bump among other things, and we are talking in generations, which gives up plenty of time to recover. However, don't blame a lack of exposure for any decline. Note the Foxtrot comic strip uses D&D play as one of its running gags. While the strip doesn't use much detail of the game, it assumes the reader has a general knowledge of what the game is. Our public is not all that ignorant. [/QUOTE]

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