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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 7950792" data-attributes="member: 29398"><p>Yes, I'll give you that WotC found this to be generally true for gamers under 35. Their mistake lay in then extrapolating that across the whole gaming market.</p><p></p><p>Anything in the past 20 years is tainted by both the WotC study and by 3e's speeding-up of campaign play.</p><p></p><p>Curious - got any dates on these? (I gave away my Dragon collection quite some time ago) I might have started reading Dragon when I was 21 or so, and on-and-off buying them not long after that for the following 18-ish years (kinda stopped once 3e hit), and the sense I got was the average age of the readership more or less mirrored my own except early on, when the average reader age was - or at least seemed to be - older.</p><p></p><p>I really don't fit any of your patterns, do I?</p><p></p><p>The first "geek" convention of any kind I went to, never mind gaming, was when I was about 38: a Star Trek convention in Vancouver. The first gaming convention of any kind I went to was when I was 42: GenCon. (might as well start big!) <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>Not sure.</p><p></p><p>I know for sure that those of us online are just the very tip of the iceberg, but I can't say overall what that iceberg consists of. All I can speak to is our own crew, and of the 25-ish people I've played with or DMed since 2005 (when I joined ENWorld, my first real foray into online RPG anything other than a brief look at usenet in the 90s) I think maybe 5 of them have any RPG-related online presence (all here) of whom only one* besides me has a post count higher than about 5. Which kinda makes me the tip of our little iceberg, I guess. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>* - and I haven't seen a post from that one in quite some time now, though that may be simply due to following different parts of the site.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 7950792, member: 29398"] Yes, I'll give you that WotC found this to be generally true for gamers under 35. Their mistake lay in then extrapolating that across the whole gaming market. Anything in the past 20 years is tainted by both the WotC study and by 3e's speeding-up of campaign play. Curious - got any dates on these? (I gave away my Dragon collection quite some time ago) I might have started reading Dragon when I was 21 or so, and on-and-off buying them not long after that for the following 18-ish years (kinda stopped once 3e hit), and the sense I got was the average age of the readership more or less mirrored my own except early on, when the average reader age was - or at least seemed to be - older. I really don't fit any of your patterns, do I? The first "geek" convention of any kind I went to, never mind gaming, was when I was about 38: a Star Trek convention in Vancouver. The first gaming convention of any kind I went to was when I was 42: GenCon. (might as well start big!) :) Not sure. I know for sure that those of us online are just the very tip of the iceberg, but I can't say overall what that iceberg consists of. All I can speak to is our own crew, and of the 25-ish people I've played with or DMed since 2005 (when I joined ENWorld, my first real foray into online RPG anything other than a brief look at usenet in the 90s) I think maybe 5 of them have any RPG-related online presence (all here) of whom only one* besides me has a post count higher than about 5. Which kinda makes me the tip of our little iceberg, I guess. :) * - and I haven't seen a post from that one in quite some time now, though that may be simply due to following different parts of the site. [/QUOTE]
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