And there are plenty of systems out there that require less space to explain in their entirety than just explaining the changes to D20 for your new game. If someone wants to define themselves out of my target audience (as GM or game designer) just because i frequently use systems other than D20, that's their loss-but i'm not the one who 'won't play'.īut that's true across systems: the less mechanics you have to explain, the more room you have for setting material. AFAIC, they're all RPers, and thus potential fodder for my fun. Of course, i *may* be bringing my prejudices to the matter, but i don't think so, in this case.Īnyway, i'm not a fan of creating Thems or Uses, in any area. If i ever try and describe oppositional dichotomies, it's because i seem to be observing them. I have, however, met quite a few D&D3E gamers who won't even give anything that isn't D20 a chance.Īny 'them' and 'us' dichotomies that i've ever drawn, WRT gaming, have been observational, not dogmatic.

Offline, i've yet to meet a 'non-D20' gamer who wouldn't play D20, when it came right down to it-two of the most die-hard anti-D20 gamers i know (me and a friend) both have played extensively in D20 now (D&D3E, in both cases), and he's even thinking of kowtowing to his players and running his next game with D20. Well, as a non-D20 gamer (mostly-i've just switched systems from a roughly two-year run of D&D3E), i can only say that, IME, it's the D20 gamers setting up the Us-vs-Them dichotomies. He sees very few poor or poorly-educated customers, and even the younger kids regularly spend $30 to 50 dollars a week on their favorite hobbies. Most of which are either are or or supported by collegel-educated, upper-middle-class and upper-class professionals. But I know at least one weirdo store owner who's noticed that his main game demographics are kids, college students, and young professionals.

That's a reasonable amount of disposable income, especially when you consider that most hobby game fans seem to have more than one hobby.

Roleplayers spend less - about $400 over the same time - but this seems to have more to do with differences in product offerings than custome demographics. It may be more useful to note that the inestimable Ryan Dancey has stated that the surveys he's done indicate that - IIRC, this being on EN World a while ago - CCG players spend an average of about $2000 on their hobby over about 3-4 years, which is comparable to the amount minis gamers spend.

D20 modern core rulebook page 36