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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nyaricus" data-source="post: 3860277" data-attributes="member: 35678">Okay, firstly my apologies for those (most who replied, it would seem <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused    :confused:"  data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" /> ) who were offended by my post.In reading the responses to this thread, I realise there was a bit of a disconnect with reality. While I was previously was fully aware the lions' share of ENW's userbase is 30-40, I've personally only gamed with peers of my age group +/- 5 years. My gaming started not with an initiation from an older, more experienced player but by a donated book of a friends' neighbour. It was a bunch of kids in 1999 getting into a world of myth and legend in the dying throes of AD&D. I've never, ever gamed with people more then 5ish years my senior - so (again) my apologies.Nor would I be adverse to welcoming in an older player into my game (I did meet up with the fellow with full intentions of checking out how he was, and gamers have been harder to find lately), but he completely rubbed me the wrong way (wouldn't look me in the eye, was sketchy and jittery, and just seemed a bit "cuckoo"), which that (along with the "14 year old girl thread" which I found to be a cute, ironical parallel of my situation) prompted me to post this thread in the first place.So, from where I'm standing, there was no "semi-mythical initiation" into D&D by an older peer, and no older group to associate with. Growing up in the sub-urbs is likely more then a factor in this, where it was basically a bunch of similarily-aged kids, a 20 year gap, and then adults.People, I'm not an ageist bigot by any means. I'm gamed with hetero-, homo- and bi-sexual people, girls and guys, asians, blacks, metis and whites and christians, pagans, wiccans and moslems, but obviously lacking is a large age variation - perhaps I'm biased to age, but not a bigot. I live with my 77 year old grandmother, FWIW.Again, I would say it was simply how weird this guy was more then the age that bothered me (and I maybe let the two separate issues bleed a bit in my OP), but I couldn't understand why so many 30-40 year olds were answering my adds, and of course *facepalm* it's because the age range is older! That seemingly simple fact eluded the gaming circle I'm in, and my ignorance is of course evident in my OP. Again, my most sincere of apologies.cheers,--N</blockquote>

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