D&D 5E New D&D Player Survey!

[ART!]

I got a lot of questions about how I play D&D: in-person or virtual, numbers of people in my group, whether and how I modify content, what products I've bought physically and digitally*.


*I wish there had been an option for piecemeal digital purchases on DDB.

 

[darjr]

Did anybody get any of the autocomplete digital game titles they seeded?

 

[Stormonu]

Must be the end of their fiscal year - trying to get a grip on where to direct their resources.

 

[South by Southwest]

*I wish there had been an option for piecemeal digital purchases on DDB.

I agree with that (even though I've not made any such purchases). From conversations with friends, I have the sense a lot of people buy digital content that way.

Did anybody get any of the autocomplete digital game titles they seeded?

I didn't, but I'm pretty solidly non-digital anyway.

 

[pukunui]

Must be the end of their fiscal year - trying to get a grip on where to direct their resources.

Ray Winninger did say they’d be surveying us lots in preparation for 50Ae.

 

[deganawida]

Did anybody get any of the autocomplete digital game titles they seeded?

I did, and it was Warhammer video games. I almost put in that it was Total War: Warhammer I & II, but that would have been unnecessary.

EDIT: Whoops! Misread that completely. My bad!

 

[Stormonu]

Any unpaid survey that takes an hour is crazy.

The payoff is getting content you WANT.

 

[GMforPowergamers]

The payoff is getting content you WANT.

if you told me that if I took 8 hours a day for the next 3 weeks doing a survey (on top of my normal job) and I could get 4e updated and some numbers fixed with a bit of 5e and a bit of 2e thrown in (the right bits for me that is) and it would be published at the rate 5e was for the next ten years... I would do it with a smile. I would whistle well I survayed.

 

[payn]

if you told me that if I took 8 hours a day for the next 3 weeks doing a survey (on top of my normal job) and I could get 4e updated and some numbers fixed with a bit of 5e and a bit of 2e thrown in (the right bits for me that is) and it would be published at the rate 5e was for the next ten years... I would do it with a smile. I would whistle well I survayed.

Wish into one hand...

 

[Blue]

That took a while. A bunch of the question really had a "yes but..." where I desperately wanted to qualify, clarify, or expand on my answer, but with no option for it.

I feel like a bunch of those questions were ones I was asked in the last survey. Though this time no questions about how young were people I ran for. Last time when I mentioend runnign and teaching teens I had a screen or so around that, this time nothing along those lines.

I finished this up, but I don't feel like many of my answers were useful in shaping things for the way I would want them, except possibly for the parts I left out, like digital. My "no, I have not repurchased at full price because I don't want the you-should-charge-more for it character creation tools, I want cheap PDFs with purchase of hardcovers".

Also, exactly how does it help you to know that in the 1980s I purchased Moldvay Red Box, that there weren't even options for some of the categories you were asking about, and I saw kids at camp playing it and purchased it later in the summer but didn't find anyone to play with until over a year later because it was not a public game back then - but aggregated piecemeal into answers of people purchasing it for every other edition as well.

 

[Urriak Uruk]

Did anybody get any of the autocomplete digital game titles they seeded?

Elden Ring, and Warhammer video games (I've been playing Total War: Warhammer 3).

 

[HammerMan]

if you told me that if I took 8 hours a day for the next 3 weeks doing a survey (on top of my normal job) and I could get 4e updated and some numbers fixed with a bit of 5e and a bit of 2e thrown in (the right bits for me that is) and it would be published at the rate 5e was for the next ten years... I would do it with a smile. I would whistle well I survayed.

I would do that survey too

 

[DEFCON 1]

Filled it out as well. Standard questions and responses, nothing new that hasn't really already been asked of me before in various surveys of the past.

I'm always curious when they get responses from people like me who started back in Original D&D, have played every edition, and are still currently playing 5E whether my indicators of what I've spent money on in the last year actually have some sort of meaning. Do adults who started D&D in more recent years buy different products then us long-timers who have been buying products all along? Probably doesn't mean much, but curious nonetheless.

 

[Urriak Uruk]

What settings did people pick for their favorites?

I did Dark Sun, Planescape, and Greyhawk, hoping that would push their eventual release. Picked Dark Sun as my favorite.

 

[Aldarc]

Eberron and Nentir Vale.

 

[GMforPowergamers]

Do adults who started D&D in more recent years buy different products then us long-timers who have been buying products all along? Probably doesn't mean much, but curious nonetheless.

i am sure that is part of what they test for... what are we buying anf what the kids are buying

 

[HammerMan]

What settings did people pick for their favorites?

Birthright nether vale and darksun

 

[GMforPowergamers]

What settings did people pick for their favorites?

darksun, ravenloft, birthright

 

[payn]

What settings did people pick for their favorites?

I did Dark Sun, Planescape, and Greyhawk, hoping that would push their eventual release. Picked Dark Sun as my favorite.

Dark Sun (/fist bump), Birthright, and Eberron.

 

[deganawida]

What settings did people pick for their favorites?

Birthright, DragonLance, and Ravenloft.