D&D (2024) Is There A New Sheriff in Town?

[mamba]

I have logic. Eventually the market becomes saturated. Everyone knows about D&D now. People are either players, or will never become players because they don’t enjoy that kind of thing.

this assumes there is a fixed set of people, which is clearly not true

The red line cannot keep going up forever, but buisiness believes it can.

you did not say that D&D cannot grow forever, you said sales stopped growing already

 

[Paul Farquhar]

This is something to be expected because Brownian Motion isn't a topic that comes up with any regular frequency in a person's day to day life.

It comes up often enough for me, since I teach it every year. But even when it was first discovered it wasn’t a huge mystery, since the idea of atoms was already becoming known within the scientific community. It was just nice to get some evidence.

It’s a good example of how it’s possible to infer the presence of something without directly observing it.

 

[Morrus]

I have logic. Eventually the market becomes saturated. Everyone knows about D&D now. People are either players, or will never become players because they don’t enjoy that kind of thing. The red line cannot keep going up forever, but buisiness believes it can.

That's not what you said, though, is it?

 

[Gorgon Zee]

Looking at google search trends recently, we have shadowdark and cosmere scoring <10, daggerheart coming in at just below 30 and D&D at 90. I cannot add in pathfinder as there's a lot of non-rpg related search for that.

In terms of general interest as measured by search terms, Daggerheart is currently really hot, and by "really hot" we mean 30% as hot as vanilla D&D.