Menu
News
All News
Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
Pathfinder
Starfinder
Warhammer
2d20 System
Year Zero Engine
Industry News
Reviews
Dragon Reflections
White Dwarf Reflections
Columns
Weekly Digests
Weekly News Digest
Freebies, Sales & Bundles
RPG Print News
RPG Crowdfunding News
Game Content
ENterplanetary DimENsions
Mythological Figures
Opinion
Worlds of Design
Peregrine's Nest
RPG Evolution
Other Columns
From the Freelancing Frontline
Monster ENcyclopedia
WotC/TSR Alumni Look Back
4 Hours w/RSD (Ryan Dancey)
The Road to 3E (Jonathan Tweet)
Greenwood's Realms (Ed Greenwood)
Drawmij's TSR (Jim Ward)
Community
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions, OSR, & D&D Variants
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Resources
Wiki
Pages
Latest activity
Media
New media
New comments
Search media
Downloads
Latest reviews
Search resources
EN Publishing
Store
EN5ider
Adventures in ZEITGEIST
Awfully Cheerful Engine
What's OLD is NEW
Judge Dredd & The Worlds Of 2000AD
War of the Burning Sky
Level Up: Advanced 5E
Events & Releases
Upcoming Events
Private Events
Featured Events
Socials!
EN Publishing
Twitter
BlueSky
Facebook
Instagram
EN World
BlueSky
YouTube
Facebook
Twitter
Twitch
Podcast
Features
Top 5 RPGs Compiled Charts 2004-Present
Adventure Game Industry Market Research Summary (RPGs) V1.0
Ryan Dancey: Acquiring TSR
Q&A With Gary Gygax
D&D Rules FAQs
TSR, WotC, & Paizo: A Comparative History
D&D Pronunciation Guide
Million Dollar TTRPG Kickstarters
Tabletop RPG Podcast Hall of Fame
Eric Noah's Unofficial D&D 3rd Edition News
D&D in the Mainstream
D&D & RPG History
About Morrus
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions, OSR, & D&D Variants
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.
Enchanted Trinkets Complete--a hardcover book containing over 500 magic items for your D&D games!
Community
General Tabletop Discussion
*TTRPGs General
Is the RPG Industry on Life Support? (Merged w/"Nothing Dies")
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="Toben the Many" data-source="post: 1891648" data-attributes="member: 19273"><p>That's really not true. At all. No market research backs this up. WotC did a serious market survey a few years ago and discovered one startling thing - people who played lots of video games didn't play them in exclusion to D&D. In fact, they played video games and D&D inclusively, accomodating for both.</p><p></p><p>Again, if all of us think back to our own lives, I'm sure you will remember long hours in front of the computer playing games. But that didn't stop us from playing D&D. </p><p></p><p>Now, there are some people I know that migrated from tabletop to computer gaming - but that wasn't because computer games won. It was usually real-life stuff (people having fallouts, poor DMs, etc).</p><p></p><p>By the way - book are passe? Whatever! As an educator, I can tell you gloom-and-doom people that books are on the <em>rise</em>. When I was a kid, I didn't line up with my buddies outside a bookstore until midnight to wait for a <strong>book to come out</strong>.</p><p></p><p>Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Borders...these are all <em>thriving</em> buisnesses. And they aren't thriving because no one is reading. What is happening is worse actually - there is a wider and wider division between those who read and those who don't.</p><p></p><p>One last thing on marketing. No, I don't think they should market RPGs to younger audiences. Many people here started when we were in our teens. Myself included. However, I got into D&D because it was targeted towards an older audience. Let's face it. The AD&D Player's Guide, with the Big Red Demon on the front wasn't very kid friendly. </p><p></p><p>All of my students, who are younger BTW, listen to music, watch movies, play video games and read books that are all <em>targeted to older audiences</em>. Why? Because as you become a teen you start exploring older, more mature things. So let's keep D&D where it is. If you start making D&D like Pokemon...well....</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Toben the Many, post: 1891648, member: 19273"] That's really not true. At all. No market research backs this up. WotC did a serious market survey a few years ago and discovered one startling thing - people who played lots of video games didn't play them in exclusion to D&D. In fact, they played video games and D&D inclusively, accomodating for both. Again, if all of us think back to our own lives, I'm sure you will remember long hours in front of the computer playing games. But that didn't stop us from playing D&D. Now, there are some people I know that migrated from tabletop to computer gaming - but that wasn't because computer games won. It was usually real-life stuff (people having fallouts, poor DMs, etc). By the way - book are passe? Whatever! As an educator, I can tell you gloom-and-doom people that books are on the [i]rise[/i]. When I was a kid, I didn't line up with my buddies outside a bookstore until midnight to wait for a [b]book to come out[/b]. Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Borders...these are all [i]thriving[/i] buisnesses. And they aren't thriving because no one is reading. What is happening is worse actually - there is a wider and wider division between those who read and those who don't. One last thing on marketing. No, I don't think they should market RPGs to younger audiences. Many people here started when we were in our teens. Myself included. However, I got into D&D because it was targeted towards an older audience. Let's face it. The AD&D Player's Guide, with the Big Red Demon on the front wasn't very kid friendly. All of my students, who are younger BTW, listen to music, watch movies, play video games and read books that are all [i]targeted to older audiences[/i]. Why? Because as you become a teen you start exploring older, more mature things. So let's keep D&D where it is. If you start making D&D like Pokemon...well.... [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Community
General Tabletop Discussion
*TTRPGs General
Is the RPG Industry on Life Support? (Merged w/"Nothing Dies")
Top
