ENworlder: How long have you been gaming?

[Lanefan]

There's about 20 or so in our general gaming crew, of which I am among the oldest; as far as I know I'm the only one of us active here and I only dove in around 2005. From reading this thread, it sounds like I'm not alone in being the "representative" on ENWorld of a group of mostly-younger players.

Which means, the hobby's not in as bad a shape as the ENWorld demographic would have us believe.

Some time ago, I ran a poll here asking what year people started playing - I don't have the link, but it'd be a good tie-in to this poll.

Lanefan

 

[pogre]

34 years.

 

[Ulorian - Agent of Chaos]

First played in 1982 in middle school (D&D club? What's that?).

 

[Oldtimer]

If we just talk RPGs, it's 34 years and counting. I started with D&D in late 1974.

 

[Mathew_Freeman]

I started gaming in about 1990 - which is just scary!

 

[Ginnel]

Depends what you mean by gaming I suppose, fighting fantasy books, heroquest and space crusade, warhammer, Discworld MUD, D&D where does it start?

table top roleplay I'll be coming up to 10 years in October
Playing an actual role in a game on a MUD 11 years
wargaming type stuff it would be 16 years
Reading my older brothers rulebooks (call of cthulu + expansions, AD&D DM guide plus copies of white dwarf) and fighting fantasy and it would be 17-19 years

So take your pick I went for the whole table top thing myself and I'm at 9 years with that at the moment

 

[Blackrat]

Since February '99. So that gives me just about 10 years.

 

[Brown Jenkin]

There's about 20 or so in our general gaming crew, of which I am among the oldest; as far as I know I'm the only one of us active here and I only dove in around 2005. From reading this thread, it sounds like I'm not alone in being the "representative" on ENWorld of a group of mostly-younger players.

Which means, the hobby's not in as bad a shape as the ENWorld demographic would have us believe.

Some time ago, I ran a poll here asking what year people started playing - I don't have the link, but it'd be a good tie-in to this poll.

Lanefan

Then there are those of us like myself at about 40 who are the newbie (8 years and counting) and youngest of our group of 8. As long as I keep gaming with my group of Old Coots (poll term) this whippersnapper can keep feeling young.

 

[Grazzt]

Started gaming in 1982

 

[Sunderstone]

About 28 years now.
All D&D mostly, some early TMNT, Star Frontiers, Gamma World, etc.