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<blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 3858203" data-attributes="member: 14159"><p>I'm 29, one of my closest friends that I game with regularly is 52, she has a daughter I often game with that's 21, and in my last campaign the three of us had a 18 year old Freshman from the University with us gaming.</p><p></p><p>Honestly, once everybody is a legal adult, age doesn't really matter with putting a gaming group together as long as everybody gets along.</p><p></p><p>Back in the "14 year old" thread, there were dire warnings about how teachers should never associate with students outside of school. Well, once you make it to college that goes out the window. I've known of two DM's that also were college instructors, and both had students playing in their games at some time or another.</p><p></p><p>You will get 40 year old gamers because people still game at the age of 40, it's not something you stop doing when you graduate from college, or turn 30, or turn 40. If you started when you were in your 20's back in the 70's with OD&D or 1e AD&D, you'd easily be in your 50's now, if not your 60's depending on just how old you were and when exactly you started. If you were college age in the big D&D boom of the early 80's, you'd very well be in your 40's by now.</p><p></p><p>Not all gamers look just like you in terms of age, sex, color or anything else you might want to imagine (I'd imagine there are trends and more likely patterns, but lots and lots of exceptions), and when you put out a public ad for gamers you're likely to get a wide range of people that for one reason or another don't have a regular gaming group. They could have recently moved to town and not found a new group, or their prior group could have broken up for any of a dozen reasons, or they have been out of gaming for a while and are coming back, or so on.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wingsandsword, post: 3858203, member: 14159"] I'm 29, one of my closest friends that I game with regularly is 52, she has a daughter I often game with that's 21, and in my last campaign the three of us had a 18 year old Freshman from the University with us gaming. Honestly, once everybody is a legal adult, age doesn't really matter with putting a gaming group together as long as everybody gets along. Back in the "14 year old" thread, there were dire warnings about how teachers should never associate with students outside of school. Well, once you make it to college that goes out the window. I've known of two DM's that also were college instructors, and both had students playing in their games at some time or another. You will get 40 year old gamers because people still game at the age of 40, it's not something you stop doing when you graduate from college, or turn 30, or turn 40. If you started when you were in your 20's back in the 70's with OD&D or 1e AD&D, you'd easily be in your 50's now, if not your 60's depending on just how old you were and when exactly you started. If you were college age in the big D&D boom of the early 80's, you'd very well be in your 40's by now. Not all gamers look just like you in terms of age, sex, color or anything else you might want to imagine (I'd imagine there are trends and more likely patterns, but lots and lots of exceptions), and when you put out a public ad for gamers you're likely to get a wide range of people that for one reason or another don't have a regular gaming group. They could have recently moved to town and not found a new group, or their prior group could have broken up for any of a dozen reasons, or they have been out of gaming for a while and are coming back, or so on. [/QUOTE]
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