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<blockquote data-quote="DrJawaPhD" data-source="post: 9596481" data-attributes="member: 7044770"><p>It should be trivial to find a citation that Wealth increases with Age (I think up to ~60-70, as folks generally start hitting retirement).</p><p></p><p>Doing some quick searching into citations for Money Spent on Hobbies vs Age, everything I found did NOT support the OP's claim, and rather showed that Millennials and younger spent more. This is going to be hobbies in general though, not DnD specifically</p><p></p><p>As far as DnD specifically goes, I challenge the OP's supposition of defining the Grognard tiers by age or even by when people started playing DnD. I am Gen X, started during AD&D 2nd edition - I love 5th edition and only spend money on those products, and I would never play older editions. Anecdotally, I know dozens of other players as old or older than me who only buy 5th edition products, and I don't know a single person who likes old DnD editions. That dataset clearly has self-selection bias so I would only use it to argue that Older Age does not equal Prefers Older DnD Editions</p><p></p><p>The OP is definitely partially correct though in the sense that Grognards are one subset of customers with money to spend, and therefore matter to WotC because the overriding corporate principle is that #AllWalletsMatter</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DrJawaPhD, post: 9596481, member: 7044770"] It should be trivial to find a citation that Wealth increases with Age (I think up to ~60-70, as folks generally start hitting retirement). Doing some quick searching into citations for Money Spent on Hobbies vs Age, everything I found did NOT support the OP's claim, and rather showed that Millennials and younger spent more. This is going to be hobbies in general though, not DnD specifically As far as DnD specifically goes, I challenge the OP's supposition of defining the Grognard tiers by age or even by when people started playing DnD. I am Gen X, started during AD&D 2nd edition - I love 5th edition and only spend money on those products, and I would never play older editions. Anecdotally, I know dozens of other players as old or older than me who only buy 5th edition products, and I don't know a single person who likes old DnD editions. That dataset clearly has self-selection bias so I would only use it to argue that Older Age does not equal Prefers Older DnD Editions The OP is definitely partially correct though in the sense that Grognards are one subset of customers with money to spend, and therefore matter to WotC because the overriding corporate principle is that #AllWalletsMatter [/QUOTE]
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