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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ergeheilalt" data-source="post: 1083464" data-attributes="member: 3460">Re: AgeismThree years ago, I was eager for a game. I had managed to procure the 3e books by bugging my parents and doing extra chores and such. Now all I needed was a game. I also had no car, so this meant the game had to be in the area. I looked online.Okay, up until then, my online experience was Britanica and Websters. I went to WotC's and found a few games that were played in a chat room. I made the number one  mistake of announcing my age in the emails (15 at the time). I got too many letters that said, "Uhhhh, we're looking for - uh - older people".Eventually I found two games. I conveniently forgot to mention my age in passing and got in to both game. I must say, for being a teenage player - you know, the ones who don't care about emailing or calling on the phone when they arn't gonna make it - I was the only guy who was consistently there and ready to game.Moral of the Story: Ageism is a very stupid way of going about picking players. At 16 I was DMing people 10 years older than I was, I had a webpage for my game, and a convincing story with a lot of background color. The same is true for older folks; if you want to play, come one come all. Age is only an issue when you've got overprotective parents trying to keep you away from "those older wierdos with nothing to do". The great majority do not care if you can keep your grades up, and if you as a DM are afraid that you game may be too mature - watch the nightly news, its almost always more graphic, more depressing than a game. Keep in the Elf Witch. You might have better luck going with online game...ErgeBTW: The two games I found originally are still running (with the same players mostly). Friday night game has been running smoothly for 3 years. The Saturday game of heavy role playing is under my Iron-Clad DM's fist while the original DM takes a breather to plan the new plot line. See ... my age hasn't ruined anything. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":P" title="Stick out tongue    :P"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":P" /></blockquote>

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