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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kenobi65" data-source="post: 2424863" data-attributes="member: 1515">I got interested in D&D at age 17.  After playing a few games with the neighbor kids (who were considerably younger than me, both chronologically and emotionally), I was invited to play a session with a group that was mostly in their late 20s and early 30s.  It was the most fun I'd ever had, and they accepted me whole-heartedly.  I still play with some members of that group now (with me at age 40, and them in their 50s).(After about a year in the group, when I was 18, I started dating one of the other players, who was 32 at the time.  But, that's another story... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> )I was probably an atypical 17-year-old, however.  I'd always been more comfortable with adults than with my peers, and that probably had a lot to do with my ability to mesh into that group.Since then, we've had another younger person join us.  He started playing regularly with us when he was 15 or 16...and again, he was probably fairly mature emotionally.  He's been with us for a decade now.To concur with many of the other posters: it depends on the player.</blockquote>