Gamers NOT born in 1974!

[The_lurkeR]

I'm a 74'er who had already voted.

It is quite an interesting anomaly. There's definately a curve peaking around there, but still it's twice the population of any other year.

Post Vietnam mini baby-boom? (Strange because the war wasn't over yet.)

Some kind of coincidence of being the right age when D&D hit it big?

 

[ssampier]

1980, 6 years too late

 

[Devilkiller]

Same. What's with 1974 and gamers. That's really odd.

The other years in the early 70s are doing pretty well too, including my year of 1973. I think it is easy for anybody who was a kid in the early 80s to imagine why though. There was a huge D&D craze in the early 80s. A few years earlier D&D hadn't caught on yet. A few years later the craze had tapered off and D&D was consigned to the realm of the nerds.

However, I also think ENWorld could be a sligtly skewed forum. There seem to be a lot of oldtimers here. The WotC boards seem to be inhabited primarily by kids around 12-18.

 

[Nifft]

starting a thread to promote a year was dirty pool, and I hope this provides some balance.

Hey now. If our parents hadn't been playing "dirty pool", there wouldn't be so many of us '74-ers.

-- N

 

[palleomortis]

'87 here. My next-younger brother was '88, though; 19th of December, on the verge of '89. My youngest brother (the one in my siblings campaign) was '91.

ROCK ON!!! 88' all the way!!!!! Dec. 2 here.

 

[mythusmage]

***Applauds using the word "thecodont" in a sentence.***

Born in 1963 here.

Thecos are cool. The base from which we got lizards and snakes, crocodiles, pterosaurs, and lizard hipped dinosaurs. From the pterries we got pterodactyls, from the LHDs we got bird hipped dinosaurs and birds.

What did we get from the therapsids? Proto-mammals. And from proto-mammals all we got were triconodonts, multituberculates, monotremes, marsupials, and placental mammals. I don't care what anybody says, an indricotherium is puny compared to a seismosaurus.

 

[werk]

However, I also think ENWorld could be a sligtly skewed forum. There seem to be a lot of oldtimers here. The WotC boards seem to be inhabited primarily by kids around 12-18.

Good point, WotC doesn't make it through our corp. proxy/firewall thingy. SO ENWorld is the working man's D&D forum.

 

[was]

1973

 

[palleomortis]

close call there. we would have had you exiled.

 

[TerraDave]

There are still hundreds of you on right now that have not responded...