Meech17
Adventurer
Also only speaking anecdotally, but I sort of came to D&D from video games.You would of course see a broader section of the gaming community than do I, but anecdotally I'm not sure I can think of anyone who came to D&D via videogames. I can, however, think of some who went the other way.
My older brother and I grew up playing EverQuest in the early 2000's, then EverQuest2 in the mid 2000's and got into Roleplaying through that. His wife at the time was very into forum/play by post roleplaying as well. The three of would sit around and essentially play a TTRPG without the rules and dice. We eventually tried to gamify it and made our own system using six sided dice stolen from our Risk set, and naturally we stumbled onto D&D from there.
It was a great transition because we loved EQ, and the world, and the lore, but didn't like how limited our interaction was with it. Sure the story in this questline was great, but we had to follow the rigid structure provided by the game to progress it. There were no choices to be made. D&D was able to give us a much more open experience.
I know a lot of people went the other way though. I had heard of avid D&Ders who fled to WoW for the ease of access it brought.
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