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<blockquote data-quote="Gnarlo" data-source="post: 8333289" data-attributes="member: 2995"><p>Matters of different perspective and experience of course, as I don’t see a <em>huge</em> mainstreaming in the general populace… among the nerd population, sure. At the hospital I work at, there are a little over 40 workers on my unit, ranging in ages from 21 to 60s; I’ve found 3 (counting myself) who have played the game and about another half dozen who have heard of it, oddly enough all but one of the 9 in the 40 and up age group. Those 9 are also the group that watches Trek, and the Mandelorian, and plays board games, etc. NONE of them watch any online gamers and only 1 had heard of Critical Role…</p><p></p><p>When I was last on the forums here 14 or 15 years ago or so? Worked on the same unit and there was one other player on my floor and about 2 or 3 others we could talk general nerd stuff with. So there’s been some growth, but all us RPGers (non computer) and board gamers and miniatures folks and 3D printers and etc forget what a niche we are and what a bubble we live in sometimes in the forums and discords we hang out in. </p><p></p><p>My come to Jesus moment about the hobby would have been about that 14 or 15 years ago when I was asking the manager of the local Barnes and Nobles why they didn’t have more gaming stuff or carry copies of Dungeon magazine (they would get about a half dozen copies of Dragon each month). He pointed to the shelf with the 3 different <em>quilting</em> magazines and told me how much those outsold the gaming ones. In a major college town. So anecdotal, of course, and YMMV, but worth keeping in mind.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Gnarlo, post: 8333289, member: 2995"] Matters of different perspective and experience of course, as I don’t see a [I]huge[/I] mainstreaming in the general populace… among the nerd population, sure. At the hospital I work at, there are a little over 40 workers on my unit, ranging in ages from 21 to 60s; I’ve found 3 (counting myself) who have played the game and about another half dozen who have heard of it, oddly enough all but one of the 9 in the 40 and up age group. Those 9 are also the group that watches Trek, and the Mandelorian, and plays board games, etc. NONE of them watch any online gamers and only 1 had heard of Critical Role… When I was last on the forums here 14 or 15 years ago or so? Worked on the same unit and there was one other player on my floor and about 2 or 3 others we could talk general nerd stuff with. So there’s been some growth, but all us RPGers (non computer) and board gamers and miniatures folks and 3D printers and etc forget what a niche we are and what a bubble we live in sometimes in the forums and discords we hang out in. My come to Jesus moment about the hobby would have been about that 14 or 15 years ago when I was asking the manager of the local Barnes and Nobles why they didn’t have more gaming stuff or carry copies of Dungeon magazine (they would get about a half dozen copies of Dragon each month). He pointed to the shelf with the 3 different [I]quilting[/I] magazines and told me how much those outsold the gaming ones. In a major college town. So anecdotal, of course, and YMMV, but worth keeping in mind. [/QUOTE]
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