Actual age of the 4th edition player base

[KrazyHades]

1) 20s
2) 20s
3) Picked it up on my own ~age 15

 

[Cadfan]

1) 18-22.
2) 18-22.
3) 13.

I know the poll said "average," but I answered more on a median/mode type response, since that's more important for a range with a left most bound but not much of a right most bound.

 

[WayneLigon]

1) What do you think is the average age of the majority of current DnD players?

18-25; disposable income + not likely to be married or have kids = win

2) What age bracket do you think WoTC is targeting with the new edition?

18-25

3) How were YOU brought into the game? (Friend's, older relative, picked it up on your own, etc)?

17; I came in through seeing a friend playing it when I chanced by the only hobby shop in town looking for a game I'd seen advertised in Analog. If that had not happened, it would have been, oh, six months to a year later at the latest. A segment of the people I hung out with played D&D, but I probably would not have known it until I got into college.

 

[hazel monday]

You win that question.

What did they jump you in with…rolled up Dragon magazines?

I'd prefer not to go into the lurid details. Let's just say that my intro to D&D deviated slightly from the norm.

 

[Desdichado]

I guess the big point of this question is the premise that the target market of 4e is something other that current players.

I really, really disagree with that. I mean, no doubt WotC would love to recruit new players and have strategies in place to assist with that goal, but honestly, this whole thread seems like a backhanded slam at WotC with the implication that 4e is "out of touch" with the current userbase. Just because you may not like some aspect of 4e that you've gotten a whiff of doesn't mean that someone else that otherwise fits your demographic doesn't like it. WotC would be stupider than words can express if they weren't first and foremost interested in having 4e mostly make conquest sales of existing 3.5 players.

Please tell me I'm reading too much into this. However, given the tenor of discussion here, I really don't think I am.

 

[Doug McCrae]

1) 30-35
2) 12+
3) Friend

 

[Shade]

1.) 35
2.) 15-25
3.) Friend

 

[grimslade]

I'd prefer not to go into the lurid details. Let's just say that my intro to D&D deviated slightly from the norm.

As long as it involved Steam Tunnels and Tom Hanks, all is well.

As for the OP:

1)Average? ~22
2)Ages 12 and up just every other incarnation of D&D
3)Older cousin and an Aunt who got all sorts of comp stuff for the original mods

 

[Zamkaizer]

I believe that the average age of D&D players is somewhere in the early twenties.

I think wizards is trying to attract more of 13-25 year olds to the game.

I was introduced as a young teenager to D&D by a friend who started because he liked Diablo.

 

[Thornir Alekeg]

1) 25
2) 12-60 (To WotC, the target audience is as large as possible)
3) A friend and I watched some other kids playing at the local hobby store.