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<blockquote data-quote="SteveC" data-source="post: 9119935" data-attributes="member: 9053">Uh, I heard people talking in my office about D&amp;D because of Stranger Things who had no previous experience with the game. Heck, it made my wife (who is not a gamer) try D&amp;D out when I couldn't get her to. It may not be your thing, but it was a phenomenon at the time. It brought new people into the game in droves. There was no advertising or popular culture behind the game at that point. Yes, 5E brought gamers back, but those first two years of the game had the core books and virtually nothing else.D&amp;D is popular in pop culture now, but it wasn't back at that point. Major celebrities weren't talking about it. I have no idea how the new people who started playing the game would have even heard about it. As someone who was the right age of those kids in Stranger Things, I was right along with it. That was from before my daughter was born so I had time to be part of pop culture. It was literally everywhere. I have no idea where the early breakout success of the game would even have come from if not from that.I will just have to disagree that 5E was a smashing success in those days. Yeah, it was popular in terms on not being 4E, but outside of gaming circles? That would come later.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="SteveC, post: 9119935, member: 9053"] Uh, I heard people talking in my office about D&D because of Stranger Things who had no previous experience with the game. Heck, it made my wife (who is not a gamer) try D&D out when I couldn't get her to. It may not be your thing, but it was a [B]phenomenon [/B]at the time. It brought new people into the game in droves. There was no advertising or popular culture behind the game at that point. Yes, 5E brought [B]gamers [/B]back, but those first two years of the game had the core books and virtually nothing else. D&D is popular in pop culture now, but it [B]wasn't [/B]back at that point. Major celebrities weren't talking about it. I have no idea how the new people who started playing the game would have even heard about it. As someone who was the right age of those kids in Stranger Things, I was right along with it. That was from before my daughter was born so I had time to be part of pop culture. It was literally everywhere. I have no idea where the early breakout success of the game would even have come from if not from that. I will just have to disagree that 5E was a smashing success in those days. Yeah, it was popular in terms on not being 4E, but outside of gaming circles? That would come later. [/QUOTE]

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