'Behind the scenes of the making of Dungeons & Dragons' (Seattle Times)

[LordEntrails]

https://www.seattletimes.com/life/lifestyle/behind-the-scenes-of-the-making-of-dungeons-dragons/

Interesting article. A few things of note;
- 40% of D&D players are women
- D&D is in its 44th year
- 2017 saw 44% sales growth over 2016
- 2017 players are between 12-15 million
- 50% of players started since 2014
- New D&D board game from Avalon Hill to be released this fall
- Seahwaks running back CJ Prosise is an intern at WotC

[Zacchaeus]

Yeah, you lost me on that last point. I understood WotC :)

[LordEntrails]

Yeah, you lost me on that last point. I understood WotC :)
He's a 23 year old guy that plays a game in public. He has a contract to play that game for 4 years, and gets paid between 2.4 and 3.1 million US Dollars.

All for playing a silly game. I think he wants to grow up to be a game designer.

I think that's the goal of Critical Role, to get paid like CJ.

[GarthGiantbane]

He's a 23 year old guy that plays a game in public. He has a contract to play that game for 4 years, and gets paid between 2.4 and 3.1 million US Dollars.

All for playing a silly game. I think he wants to grow up to be a game designer.

I think that's the goal of Critical Role, to get paid like CJ.

LOL... nice rebuttal :)

[GavinRuneblade]

Great article, thank you for the link.

I've had the pleasure of gaming with Chris Perkins one time. He is a lot of fun. And I'm very glad to hear the game is healthy.

[Stormhound]

I'm looking forward to playing 17e a century from now...

[notrealdan]

I’m looking forward to whatever cool stuff they do to celebrate 50 years of D&D!