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<blockquote data-quote="Oofta" data-source="post: 9032587" data-attributes="member: 6801845">There's a couple of problems with your conclusion.&nbsp; First, the baby boomers officially spanned from 1946-1964.&nbsp; If we assume old school D&amp;D peaked somewhere around 1980 (just a guess, I have no clue), that means that the oldest boomers were in their 30s during the boom period when gaming was still considered something that only kids and, perhaps, college age young adults played them.&nbsp; So right away, you're taking out a huge chunk of the baby boomer generation.&nbsp; It's likely that only the tale end boomers such as myself and people a couple of years older, say those born from 1960 on got into D&amp;D to a significant degree.&nbsp; Most were already working and raising families by the time the game caught on.&nbsp; Heck, if the boomer &quot;generation&quot; used the span of years used for the next two generations, they wouldn't even be considered boomers (which was 18 years instead of 14).&nbsp; Then again lumping people this way is kind of odd in the first place.So it's likely we only have the very tail end of the boomer generation that ever picked up the game and played long enough before they started careers for it to stick.&nbsp; There are of course exceptions here and there.&nbsp; Then throw in all the rest, that the numbers could be inaccurate for any number of reasons, they could have lumped everyone above 40 into the same group, etc.&nbsp; So are those boomers playing D&amp;D, just not 5E?&nbsp; Maybe, maybe not. Perhaps they've gone on to other systems, perhaps they just don't play any more.&nbsp; Maybe enough of that relative handful of boomers that ever got into TTRPGs play OSR games that your conclusion is valid.&nbsp; My point is that we really just don't know, we don't have enough information to make any kind of conclusion.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Oofta, post: 9032587, member: 6801845"] There's a couple of problems with your conclusion. First, the baby boomers officially spanned from 1946-1964. If we assume old school D&D peaked somewhere around 1980 (just a guess, I have no clue), that means that the oldest boomers were in their 30s during the boom period when gaming was still considered something that only kids and, perhaps, college age young adults played them. So right away, you're taking out a huge chunk of the baby boomer generation. It's likely that only the tale end boomers such as myself and people a couple of years older, say those born from 1960 on got into D&D to a significant degree. Most were already working and raising families by the time the game caught on. Heck, if the boomer "generation" used the span of years used for the next two generations, they wouldn't even be considered boomers (which was 18 years instead of 14). Then again lumping people this way is kind of odd in the first place. So it's likely we only have the very tail end of the boomer generation that ever picked up the game and played long enough before they started careers for it to stick. There are of course exceptions here and there. Then throw in all the rest, that the numbers could be inaccurate for any number of reasons, they could have lumped everyone above 40 into the same group, etc. So are those boomers playing D&D, just not 5E? Maybe, maybe not. Perhaps they've gone on to other systems, perhaps they just don't play any more. Maybe enough of that relative handful of boomers that ever got into TTRPGs play OSR games that your conclusion is valid. My point is that we really just don't know, we don't have enough information to make any kind of conclusion. [/QUOTE]

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