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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aldarc" data-source="post: 8628714" data-attributes="member: 5142">WotC being more interested in what their target audience within the 12-35 age range doesn't mean that there was some sort of grand conspiracy to exclude or silence people who fell outside of that core group or shelter their research from inconvenient answers that contradicted the data. It means that they wanted to gather data on the group that was most likely to form their core or desired audience. That's it. Furthermore, keep in mind that the survey was not strictly about D&D. It also included (likely at the time) more profitable trading card games and miniature wargames: Also please note that Dancey would have potentially liked doing follow-up research that would have included a wider age range, which hardly would have been the case if there was some nefarious conspiracy with the intent to silence voices. It had far more to do with focusing a more manageable set of data that caught their core, target audience for their range of company products. If WotC did market research today that focused on people aged 12-35 as part of their core audience, I would be excluded as a result of my age and I would think nothing of it because I can respect that I am not the target group of interest for them.</blockquote>