ShadowAssassin
Explorer
I was 21 but then RPG's hadn't been invented any earlier.
How old were you when your first GMed an RPG?
Ralif Redhammer
Legend
If my timeline's right, I was nine when I picked up the red box and first started running D&D. I can't say I was good at it, but hey, as the Adventure Time quote goes, “Sucking at something is the first step to becoming sorta good at something.”
AngryTiger
Explorer
7 years old. I started Gm'ing when i started playing roleplaying games. I discovered rpg's with a friend and we didn't have anyone to teach us or run a game for us so we took turns gm'ing for each other to learn.
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12-13, as I recall.
Mid 20s, not too long ago. 
Honestly I didn't think anyone would want to play given how easy it is to forget about this kind of fun beyond childhood, but we're still going strong and we've even spawned more games! My DMing is still pretty terrible I think, but I'm getting better and luckily my players are quite forgiving.
Glad we tried it!
Edit: There's some pretty great stories in this thread
Honestly I didn't think anyone would want to play given how easy it is to forget about this kind of fun beyond childhood, but we're still going strong and we've even spawned more games! My DMing is still pretty terrible I think, but I'm getting better and luckily my players are quite forgiving.Glad we tried it!
Edit: There's some pretty great stories in this thread
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Alexander Kalinowski
Explorer
I think I was about 15 or 16. I bought the German DSA/TDE years before but never got to play until I discovered that some of my classmates got it too, so we did get started together.
PieAndDragon
Duncan T
I was 11 or 12 and it was Dungeoneer (from the Fighting Fantasy books).
The thief stole my game notes. It was a quick game!
The thief stole my game notes. It was a quick game!
Gilladian
Adventurer
I seriously can't remember! I know I ran Gamma World when I was around 14. I was already creating notebooks full of dungeons at that point, because I still have one or two of them. But I can't, for the life of me, actually remember running them. I think it was just so normal a thing that it wasn't worth remembering. There are definitely "signs" that my dungeons were used (HP tracking notes in margins, etc...), so I wasn't just creating them for fun. By the time I was 16-17 I was running games a LOT, and I've been mostly a DM for my adult life.
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