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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kae'Yoss" data-source="post: 3471946" data-attributes="member: 4134">Exactly!So there's 5 million D&D players. That doesn't mean that 5 million players hunt down every Wizards product. It doesn't even mean that there's 5 million people who have ever spent anything on D&D.In my current group, it is like this: I am the one who buys quite a lot of books, buys minis, maps, and so on. One or two other people have the PHB, or even the whole Core rules. Nothing else. The other two don't have any books. That doesn't mean that those two don't play, or the other two only play a little. It's just that we don't really need 5 Tomes of Battle or Spell Compendiums. I am also the guy with the dragon subscription, but everone would read some part, if only the comics at the end.The other gaming group I used to play in was similar: There was another guy who bought several books (though still not nearly as much as I), his girlfriend had a handful of books in German (since she didn't want to use the English ones, and I refuse to use German ones, since they're a crime agains language). The rest, between 4 and half a dozen people, didn't have any D&D books. I would guess that we're not the big exception. I'd say that in your average group of 5 people, two don't have any books, another just has the PHB and maybe one or two other books, another had the core rules and some books, and only one has anything that can be clalled a collection.I'd say that those who don't buy books other than the core rules (or not even them) will not subscribe to any silly online thingy, either. So out of your group of 5, you might have two potential subscribers to the Online Initiative, and many of those won't bother with it, since they either don't need any magazine-like content or don't want to pay for electronic stuff.</blockquote>

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