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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Maxperson" data-source="post: 8980162" data-attributes="member: 23751">Um, that graphic showed 40% being 24 or younger. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />  Numbers of the young don't equate to disposable income, which is where WotC's profits come from.  It also showed 11% being 40 or older.  Not sure you looked that closely at the graphic I posted. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />But they aren't really much of a buyer at all.  The $120(and I'm taking the upper end of a teenagers disposable income) is being split between clothing, video games, movies, D&D, board games, tech devices, food out with friends, and more.  $120 doesn't go very far these days.One movie with popcorn at a matinee is still around an entire week of their income.  Clothing is going to be a few weeks all by itself.  [URL unfurl="true"]https://headphonesaddict.com/teen-spending/#:~:text=Teens%20spend%20most%20money%20on,than%20those%20without%20a%20job.[/URL]I don't really believe in grognard, which is why I made the  young nard, medium nard and grog nard joke earlier.  It's a fun term to throw around like when people joke at me by saying I should be out yelling "get off my lawn!", which I don't even have due to California droughts.This is absolutely true, which is why I said some, but more than just a few in the 25-29 range can do it.  At 30+ you will generally have enough to spend on a D&D book or two a month if that's what you want to do.  Even with expenses, they will have enough disposable income for that much.  Especially since those expenses include a lot of luxuries like a bunch of streaming services, movies, etc.Again, this is not really about grognards.  They're going to stick with their pet editions regardless, so they aren't a part of the 5e demographics just released in any case.The older(25+ or 30+ depending on when you view disposable income coming into play) players with the most income should be the target demographics.  Then as younger folks become the older demographic, the game should shift to what they want.</blockquote>

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