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<blockquote data-quote="Harlock" data-source="post: 858935" data-attributes="member: 4545">I've introduced adults to gaming within the past few years.&nbsp; My wife teaches High School and occasionally she'll tell me about a student that brings a copy of Dragon around or huddles with his gamer friends before class to go over a character sheet.&nbsp; So, kids and teenagers are still picking it up too.&nbsp; I think the polls are more than a bit of a biased sample.&nbsp; I'd also like to add that I think even more young people would get interested in D&amp;D if there were an entry level &quot;Basic&quot; set again.&nbsp; There was talk around GAMA of such a thing, but WotC pulled it off this year's schedule, so who knows?&nbsp; Anyway, I just think it's harder for an 8 - 15 year old to get into gaming now because of the expense.&nbsp; 90 bucks is a nice chunk of change for someone that old (heck, even for me as an adult, but I am hooked) to have to convince their parents that A) that it won't be like the dog/fish/cat/karate lessons, they were interested but stopped playing with it after a couple of weeks, B) tey'll be able to read and grasp a game that has no playing board and takes place mostly in the mind, and C) that not buying 45 pounds of ground round beef on sale for the $90.00 is a better investment in their child's future.&nbsp; A game for between 10 - 20 dollars is much easier to convince Mom to buy than three big books for 90 dollars.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Harlock, post: 858935, member: 4545"] I've introduced adults to gaming within the past few years. My wife teaches High School and occasionally she'll tell me about a student that brings a copy of Dragon around or huddles with his gamer friends before class to go over a character sheet. So, kids and teenagers are still picking it up too. I think the polls are more than a bit of a biased sample. I'd also like to add that I think even more young people would get interested in D&D if there were an entry level "Basic" set again. There was talk around GAMA of such a thing, but WotC pulled it off this year's schedule, so who knows? Anyway, I just think it's harder for an 8 - 15 year old to get into gaming now because of the expense. 90 bucks is a nice chunk of change for someone that old (heck, even for me as an adult, but I am hooked) to have to convince their parents that A) that it won't be like the dog/fish/cat/karate lessons, they were interested but stopped playing with it after a couple of weeks, B) tey'll be able to read and grasp a game that has no playing board and takes place mostly in the mind, and C) that not buying 45 pounds of ground round beef on sale for the $90.00 is a better investment in their child's future. A game for between 10 - 20 dollars is much easier to convince Mom to buy than three big books for 90 dollars. [/QUOTE]

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