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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8898247" data-attributes="member: 18"><p>I think I know why. I would suggest the vast majority of RPG-players are "just passing through".</p><p></p><p>They play RPGs for a period of months to single-digit years. Then they're done. In most cases they were playing with a friend group that didn't last, or whilst they were at high school, or in college or whatever.</p><p></p><p>You see this an absolute ton in the biographies of writers. "Used to play RPGs" is insanely more common than "plays RPGs". Loads and loads and loads of writers (screen, novel, even article) played D&D when they were younger, for a period. Also, honestly I know a bunch of these people. For example, I DM'd for 7 players in a secondary group for a couple of years in high school. I know for a fact no-one took over as DM when I stopped. I very much doubt most of those people ever played RPGs again. So you've got a bunch of people out there who played RPGs, but they only actually ever played AD&D 2E in that case.</p><p></p><p>The sort of people you meet as an adult, however, who are still playing RPGs, who might bring the subject up, are almost always people who actually like RPGs and want to play RPGs, and almost none of them are going to have only ever played one RPG. Because they like them as a concept, because it wasn't just an activity with friends that was temporary. It's a hobby they wanted to maintain.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 8898247, member: 18"] I think I know why. I would suggest the vast majority of RPG-players are "just passing through". They play RPGs for a period of months to single-digit years. Then they're done. In most cases they were playing with a friend group that didn't last, or whilst they were at high school, or in college or whatever. You see this an absolute ton in the biographies of writers. "Used to play RPGs" is insanely more common than "plays RPGs". Loads and loads and loads of writers (screen, novel, even article) played D&D when they were younger, for a period. Also, honestly I know a bunch of these people. For example, I DM'd for 7 players in a secondary group for a couple of years in high school. I know for a fact no-one took over as DM when I stopped. I very much doubt most of those people ever played RPGs again. So you've got a bunch of people out there who played RPGs, but they only actually ever played AD&D 2E in that case. The sort of people you meet as an adult, however, who are still playing RPGs, who might bring the subject up, are almost always people who actually like RPGs and want to play RPGs, and almost none of them are going to have only ever played one RPG. Because they like them as a concept, because it wasn't just an activity with friends that was temporary. It's a hobby they wanted to maintain. [/QUOTE]
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