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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aaron L" data-source="post: 3843092" data-attributes="member: 926">1. From my own personal experience (and thus entirely anecdotal) the youngest player I know is 27 (my little brother) and the oldest is 35, my friend who is our DM.  As I am 31, I am the average age.  However, I only know two groups of people who actually play D&D, the younger set plays World of Warcraft.  I do, however, have a very close 24 year old friend who used to play 2E (and who sometimes tells me about how he once DM'd Dragon Mountain), and played WoW extensively, but doesn't play anything anymore due to him now having a girlfriend (an exchange of priorities which I would gladly make, I must say... )2. I'd say probably aiming for a group of new players in the 15-22 range (high-school to college age) while seeking to keep the 30-something group of current players.3. I had read about the game in various sources (ads in the backs of comics books, etc.), intensely desired to play, and vigorously sought out people whom I could actually play the game with since I was about 12, but never actually found any until I was about 16 or 17 and found some new friends at a program called Upward Bound where I stayed at a dorm at Penn State over the summer and took special (high-school level) classes (and a few college level classes) while there.  4 years of that every summer and I got a permanent group of friends with whom I still play to this day, losing players and acquiring new ones until I and the DM are currently the only original members of the gaming group left.  (my very much more outgoing and charismatic little brother/best friend/link to the outside world having moved away to Pittsburgh two years ago <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /> )</blockquote>

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