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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guest&nbsp; 85555" data-source="post: 9596999">I think it is pretty clear those of us who are 40+ (I am getting into my fifties) are a less significant demographic numerically for D&D than people in their 20s and 30s (provided the demographic charts WOTC has provided are accurate). I don’t think out purchasing power outweighs theirs. I do think people in our age groups are both dedicated to our hobbies long term and spend disposable income on them, and so we still buy books and even if we are just like 13 percent of the gamer base, that thirteen percent still have value. But I think this conversation has less to do with that and more to do with people saying we still matter period. Not that our dollar is better. Not that we can outvote anyone. Just that we shouldn’t be dismissed simply because we are older and have older tastes. Again someone pointed to IRL versus online, and I think that is true. When I first started we used terms like grognard but I feel like there was more respect to it. Like we understood they were playing in a style that was older, more stodgy and had zero interest to us at times, but we could learn things about the hobby from their experience of having been there before us (and this is how most fandoms used to operate when I was younger: whether it was D&D or playing guitar)</blockquote>