Mainstream-Indie divide

What does this include?

Entry Points

• How can we make learning new systems more accessible and less stressful?

• How can we make it easier to explore and discover new games?

• How can we make the wide world of tabletop play visible to the lay person, and how can we make that visibility appealing and approachable?

Shedding Light

• How do we close the gap between the two hardcore ends of the hobby and facilitate migration from one end to the other?

• How do we bypass the cultural of presence of D&D when introducing new players to the medium?

• Can we produce auxiliary content like critique, essays, and reviews aimed at newcomers and non-fans to teach them about games they haven’t heard of?

Audience Isolation

• Once a person has been exposed to a game they want to play, how can we funnel them towards the game and people to play it with?

• Can we participate in hobby spaces in ways that encourage exploration, participation, and enthusiasm for building tables around new games?

• How do we fold new players into the larger RPG hobby, introducing them to welcoming communities that keep playing new games easy & fun?

The Creator Space

• What can RPG developers do to make their games more obviously accessible to new players? Quickstart guides, audiobooks, etc.,

• What infrastructure can we build & contribute to to give indie developers the tools to advertise to a casual audience? How can we help each other show our work to the world?