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<blockquote data-quote="ad_hoc" data-source="post: 7876995" data-attributes="member: 6748898"><p>Here are what I think are the 2 most important factors:</p><p></p><p>#1 Word of Mouth - The game is fun, intuitive, and social. People get introduced to it. Those people then go run their own games and so on.</p><p></p><p>#2 Inclusivity - The game welcomes people who aren't white, straight, and men. I read a statistic at one point that estimated before 5e that the split was 80/20 men to women and now it is 60/40. I can't remember the source but that sounds entirely reasonable to me. It might even be closer to 50/50 at this point since that was a while ago. Non-men obviously make up a huge amount of the population and including them will increase the amount of players greatly.</p><p></p><p>Both of these factors are entirely game dependent. </p><p></p><p>There are other minor factors too such as streaming games, pop culture appearances, luck, etc. I think those are all minor. It doesn't matter how much exposure the game gets if people don't want to play it. If D&D was like 3e or 4e right now it just wouldn't be popular like this, even with the rise of streaming.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ad_hoc, post: 7876995, member: 6748898"] Here are what I think are the 2 most important factors: #1 Word of Mouth - The game is fun, intuitive, and social. People get introduced to it. Those people then go run their own games and so on. #2 Inclusivity - The game welcomes people who aren't white, straight, and men. I read a statistic at one point that estimated before 5e that the split was 80/20 men to women and now it is 60/40. I can't remember the source but that sounds entirely reasonable to me. It might even be closer to 50/50 at this point since that was a while ago. Non-men obviously make up a huge amount of the population and including them will increase the amount of players greatly. Both of these factors are entirely game dependent. There are other minor factors too such as streaming games, pop culture appearances, luck, etc. I think those are all minor. It doesn't matter how much exposure the game gets if people don't want to play it. If D&D was like 3e or 4e right now it just wouldn't be popular like this, even with the rise of streaming. [/QUOTE]
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