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<blockquote data-quote="CleverNickName" data-source="post: 8479101" data-attributes="member: 50987">I think that for all &quot;old school interested&quot; gamers (folks who are interested in playing TSR-era games, or the OSR games like Castles &amp; Crusades), less than half of them are part of an &quot;older demographic&quot; (whatever that means; I'm guessing it refers to folks who played D&amp;D in the 70s, so...folks aged 60 and up?).And I think that for the older demographic of gamers, very few of them are actually &quot;anti-woke&quot; (again, whatever that means....I suppose it means Conservative?)&nbsp; I know that there is an ageist stereotype that says older people always pine for the &quot;Good Old Days&quot;, and the Old Man Yelling At Cloud meme is a thing.&nbsp; But here on the west coast there are a lot (LOT!) of older &quot;hippie&quot; folks who defy that stereotype:&nbsp; they are incredibly liberal and progressive, went to Woodstock, played D&amp;D in college in the 70s, and celebrate Pride.&nbsp;&nbsp; So here in Oregon, I'd estimate that the number of older gamers who oppose social progress to be less than 10%...and in Texas, it's probably 90%.&nbsp; Let's split the diff and call it 50%.So applying some statistics to that:In my <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/edition-experience-updated-survey-results-jan-2021-all-surveys.671694/" target="_blank">Edition Experience surveys</a> from last year: out of 939 total votes, only 41 people voted that they are still playing TSR-era D&amp;D games (4.37%).&nbsp; If half of that number are the &quot;older demographic,&quot; we are talking about 2.18% of players...and if half of that number are offended by social progress, that means we are talking about 1.09% of D&amp;D players.TL;DR:&nbsp; This is a lot of smoke and noise for only ~1% to 4% of the player base.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="CleverNickName, post: 8479101, member: 50987"] I think that for all "old school interested" gamers (folks who are interested in playing TSR-era games, or the OSR games like Castles & Crusades), less than half of them are part of an "older demographic" (whatever that means; I'm guessing it refers to folks who played D&D in the 70s, so...folks aged 60 and up?). And I think that for the older demographic of gamers, very few of them are actually "anti-woke" (again, whatever that means....I suppose it means Conservative?) I know that there is an ageist stereotype that says older people always pine for the "Good Old Days", and the Old Man Yelling At Cloud meme is a thing. But here on the west coast there are a lot (LOT!) of older "hippie" folks who defy that stereotype: they are incredibly liberal and progressive, went to Woodstock, played D&D in college in the 70s, and celebrate Pride. So here in Oregon, I'd estimate that the number of older gamers who oppose social progress to be less than 10%...and in Texas, it's probably 90%. Let's split the diff and call it 50%. So applying some statistics to that: In my [URL='https://www.enworld.org/threads/edition-experience-updated-survey-results-jan-2021-all-surveys.671694/'][B]Edition Experience surveys[/B][/URL] from last year: out of 939 total votes, only 41 people voted that they are still playing TSR-era D&D games (4.37%). If half of that number are the "older demographic," we are talking about 2.18% of players...and if half of [I]that[/I] number are offended by social progress, that means we are talking about 1.09% of D&D players. TL;DR: This is a lot of smoke and noise for only ~1% to 4% of the player base. [/QUOTE]

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