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Message: <blockquote data-quote="bloodtide" data-source="post: 9345565" data-attributes="member: 6684958">I'm sure the Grayhawk book just fits to what an Outsider would think: It is the big 50th anniversary so you, once, go back to the "beginning" of the game because it is old and 50 is old.  If fits like a perfect puzzle piece to them.There are some studies showing that "people" only play games for a couple years.  Though "games" is a bit vague.  I'm sure they take the idea that, by there viewpoint, teens play a game for a couple years and then toss it aside when they "become an adult".  After all if you get a room full of people who are around 30, many will say something like "oh, yea D&D, I played that for a little while way back...but have not played in years and years."But the Gamer type person is not like the above: A True Gamer is for life.  They like the unique aspects of RPG and make it a part of their life.  While lots of others come and go, the True Gamers are here forever.  And each age group and generation adds some small numbers to the True Gamers.But the True Gamers, are nearly invisible...even more so to companies or anyone doing a study.  They simply play the game, mostly in the back ground.  But they are there.  Anyone who was a kid after the late 70's knows about this game "dungeons and dragons" that some of the kids play.  It is one of those things that young kids hear as a whisper and a (open) secret.   Those kids over there, they play that D&D game.  And to be very blunt....lots of groups of True Gamers are not very open to any new members.It gives D&D this unknown...even mystical and mysterious aura.  And people get the desire to "know what it is all about".  And this gets to your new gamers, buying their books online and having a D&D Beyond and all that.  The new gamers will buy the Grayhawk book as it says "D&D" on it.  The true die hard Hawks might by the book just to have a "complete" set of Grayhawk books.  Everyone else...it will be hit or miss...though often a lot more miss.  A book that says silly things like "grayhawk is a cool place that has gray colored hawks" and some character options won't be a big draw to most gamers.</blockquote>

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