Re: The RP Stigma
This is a great post. I think the main issue is that most people have at least seen a football game once in their life, and most people have watched movies, television news, seen the covers of Us and People at the grocery store, etcetera.
So at a certain level anyone can relate to any of these things. But the vast majority of people have never seen a RPG. Wikipedia says 12 million people play WoW, which has 60 percent of the MMORPG market. I've heard numbers of a few million thrown around for tabletop RPGs. So if even 25 million people play MMORPGs in the world, even if they were all in the USA (which they're certainly not) that's still a small minority. Not to mention that MMORPGs are a solitary activity for the most part.
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