#RPGaDay 2018 Day 8: How Can We Get More People Playing?

Ugh.  On Day 8, we reach the first question of 2018's #RPGaDay that makes me roll my eyes: "Do we get more people playing?"

This question, and the "How do we stem the graying of the hobby," from historical wargamers are the two questions I've heard and answered every year for the past twenty-plus years. 

Lemme get this straight.

• More and more women continue to participate in gaming. 
• Hasbro has announced that 5e has exceeded sales totals of the four previous editions (and other various versions thereof).
• GenCon has effectively SOLD OUT or come critically close to doing so.
• Youtube videos of people playing D&D can get hundreds of thousands, if not millions of views.  

And we're a hobby that's not even including the gangbusters board game split in our numbers.  

Model train enthusiasts, Civil War Re-enactors, and Quilters would kill kittens for growth and numbers like that.  If you "need" more players, please tell me you have exhausted your local pool and the acceptable online pools..  

If you want to journey across the wasteland, proselytizing the virtues of the tabletop RPG, go right ahead.  

Just remember to make the games fun and cool, cause most attempts make them creepy and weird.