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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 1955202" data-attributes="member: 158"><p>I humbly submit that the markert for gamers IS younger gamers who don't give a crap about the older games, because they don't remember them. The Internet is a marvelously skewed viewing window, making those who have minority opinions seem vastly more prevalent than they really are. Those who visit ENWorld and other fan sites are dedicated fans who enjoy the minutiae of D&D (albeit in different proportions). The actual core market, those for whom it's a game and activity for fun first and foremost, and not a hobby, do not visit these forums in great numbers (when I say "great" I mean by the tens or hundreds of thousands). Instead, while the market is on average 4 million monthly gamers (according to Charles Ryan in a recent thread), maybe 8 to 10,000 of those come to ENWorld, another 600 go to Dragonsfoot, a few thousands more go to RPG.Net, and all told there may be 30,000 die-hards out there. That figure of 4 million compared to those 30,000 fans out there is huge, and this, and listening to the WotC forums, is what convinces me there are FAR more younger gamers out there than most fans realize. I have 8 gamers in my current group; of those, 3 have only gamed within the last five years, 1 is only 10 years or less into the hobby, and the other 4, me included, are the only ones with multiple non-d20 systems experience under our belts. What I've seen at conventions and book stores makes me believe that this is the case. This is anecdotal, but does help form my take on the matter.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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