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<blockquote data-quote="FitzTheRuke" data-source="post: 9032868" data-attributes="member: 59816">Yes, that's true.Me too. Also me too. I played 1e a handful of times, but I bought 2e the day it dropped and after that... we played a LOT of D&amp;D. I was selling D&amp;D when 3e dropped, and I was selling it when 2e's Black Books dropped. 3e was MUCH BIGGER for my store, but I don't know what that means for the industry. I was always under the impression that 3e (or at least, 3.5) was a very very popular edition. I guess that's probably true, but maybe it didn't reach the &quot;mainstream&quot; quite like 1e &amp; 2e, and was only as popular as it was among gamers.5e hit the mainstream again.Sure, but was it ever a big hit with them? I mean a BIG hit?That actually seems totally reasonable to me.I mean, this was a 5e statistic, wasn't it? I expect that Boomers fancy 5e no more or less than other editions, but they may be spread across more editions than other demographics, which would make sense, really.I mean, it's probably a little of all 3, really. They're probably lumped in with GenX in this survey (or at least the reporting of it) but could still be no more than 1%Shrug. Maybe. I think it absolutely could be. For example: In 30 years of selling D&amp;D, I can only think of ONE SINGLE person who was a Boomer who bought D&amp;D books for himself, and not for a child or nephew. There's probably a few more that I'm unaware of, but... I get it's just my experience, but... 30 years of selling it! I've sold thousands of books to GenXers and Millennials in that time!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="FitzTheRuke, post: 9032868, member: 59816"] Yes, that's true. Me too. Also me too. I played 1e a handful of times, but I bought 2e [I]the day it dropped[/I] and after that... we played a LOT of D&D. I was selling D&D when 3e dropped, and I was selling it when 2e's Black Books dropped. 3e was MUCH BIGGER for my store, but I don't know what that means for the industry. I was always under the impression that 3e (or at least, 3.5) was a very very popular edition. I guess that's probably true, but maybe it didn't reach the "mainstream" quite like 1e & 2e, and was only as popular as it was among gamers. 5e hit the mainstream again. Sure, but was it ever a big hit with them? I mean a BIG hit? That actually seems totally reasonable to me. I mean, this was a 5e statistic, wasn't it? I expect that Boomers fancy 5e no more or less than other editions, but they may be spread across more editions than other demographics, which would make sense, really. I mean, it's probably a little of all 3, really. They're probably lumped in with GenX in this survey (or at least the reporting of it) but could still be no more than 1% Shrug. Maybe. I think it absolutely could be. For example: In 30 years of selling D&D, I can only think of ONE SINGLE person who was a Boomer who bought D&D books for himself, and not for a child or nephew. There's probably a few more that I'm unaware of, but... I get it's just my experience, but... 30 years of selling it! I've sold [I]thousands[/I] of books to GenXers and Millennials in that time! [/QUOTE]

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