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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 2730970" data-attributes="member: 22779">Just a little anecdote about the numbers of younger gamers out there.I play on OpenRPG exclusively.  I've been playing in various campaigns for the last three years, both as a DM and occastionally as a player.  In that time, I've DM'd about 30 players and played with about a dozen more.  Of those forty people, at least 15 have been 20 or under and about 30 have been 25 or under.  So, you can figure that about a third of the people I've gamed with on OpenRPG have been teens.Think about that for a second.  OpenRPG isn't exactly the most accessible medium for playing DnD.  People first have to be interested in the game and then submit themselves to the problems and bugs of an open source chat program that is not terribly user friendly.  This shows a fair bit of dedication and intestinal fortitude on the part of the players.  People who have only a casual interest would not put up with it.  Yet, over the last three years, I have consistently seen high school students playing the game over Open.  You'd think that if there was such a drying up of gamers, it would only be old buggers like me playing there.  I've got one kid in my game that games four times a week!  (Ah to have that kind of time....)  Every time I put an ad up for a game, I consistently see that 1/3 number crop up with new gamers.  I wonder if the drop in numbers that people reportedly see has more to do with a change of venue for teen gamers.  Instead of playing tabletop, I wonder if more and more teen gamers are playing in PbP games or chat based games with Fantasy Grounds, Ghost Orb or OpenRPG.  It certainly seems to me that perhaps it's not a case of less and less gamers getting into the game, but, rather, gamers get into the game in non-traditional means.</blockquote>

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