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<blockquote data-quote="Ourph" data-source="post: 3236841" data-attributes="member: 20239">There's a difference between saying that 3e's art is directed to appeal to kids and saying anything about maturity levels.&nbsp; If 3e artwork is drawing heavily from other mediums which are already popular with kids/teens (and I would argue that it is) in an attempt to interest kids in the game with artwork that already strikes a chord with them, then the style is &quot;for kids&quot; in the sense that it's meant to grab the attention of a young audience, not in the sense that it is &quot;childish&quot; artwork.&nbsp; If that's the message you got from the previous posts I suspect you were either reading very uncharitably or simply missing the point.I'd say using ENworld polls as the basis for judging demographics for the game from 30 years ago is a bad idea.&nbsp; It seems to me that ENworld is populated by an older audience than a lot of other 3e gaming sites and probably not reflective of current gaming demographics, let alone demographics from ca. 1980.&nbsp; The mere fact that it's an internet messageboard should tip us off to that.&nbsp; What percentage of 60 year olds (no matter what their interests at 30) get on the internet at all, let alone post to ENWorld?&nbsp;&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ourph, post: 3236841, member: 20239"] There's a difference between saying that 3e's art is directed to appeal to kids and saying anything about maturity levels. If 3e artwork is drawing heavily from other mediums which are already popular with kids/teens (and I would argue that it is) in an attempt to interest kids in the game with artwork that already strikes a chord with them, then the style is "for kids" in the sense that it's meant to grab the attention of a young audience, not in the sense that it is "childish" artwork. If that's the message you got from the previous posts I suspect you were either reading very uncharitably or simply missing the point. I'd say using ENworld polls as the basis for judging demographics for the game from 30 years ago is a bad idea. It seems to me that ENworld is populated by an older audience than a lot of other 3e gaming sites and probably not reflective of [u]current[/u] gaming demographics, let alone demographics from ca. 1980. The mere fact that it's an [u]internet[/u] messageboard should tip us off to that. What percentage of 60 year olds (no matter what their interests at 30) get on the internet at all, let alone post to ENWorld? :D [/QUOTE]

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