How old are you?

[Nail]

Re: Age

/me waves to all
i'm only a meesly 18ish
been playing fer a few years now...but i've been interested in RPGs ever since i was 12....just took a looong time to get started

Nothing measley about being 18.....I should know, I was thru that patch o' years once.

Back to th' top with you, poll! The Gnome demands it!

 

[Winterthorn]

LOL

... We have a running joke about how we will eventually all have to go to the same nursing home to continue our campaign in our later years...

I know... I'm having visions: We're all 80+ years old, I'm DMing a game in a nursing home, and ppl are still arguing about the Ranger in D&D 10E...

-W.

 

[Taloras]

19, 20 in 5 months. been playing for almost a year, due to the fact that there was noone who played where i lived before that. i grew up in a small town where the baptist preacher had more power than the mayor did. Noone knew what D&D was, except that it was evil. When i brought a copy of Dragon magazine (cant even remember which one it was, it was in '99) to school, people asked me what it was about, when i told em, they insulted me. However, i am currently the youngest in my gaming group, but as im going to be in 2 groups soon, ill be the oldest in the other group(high school students). Whats sad is that i know the rules better than some of those who have been playing since before i was born.

 

[WanderingMonster]

19, 20 in 5 months. been playing for almost a year, due to the fact that there was noone who played where i lived before that. i grew up in a small town where the baptist preacher had more power than the mayor did. Noone knew what D&D was, except that it was evil. When i brought a copy of Dragon magazine (cant even remember which one it was, it was in '99) to school, people asked me what it was about, when i told em, they insulted me...

There's a Kevin Bacon movie in there somewhere!

 

[Psionicist]

About 6500 days, which makes me one of the young and ignorant ones.

 

[el-remmen]

This frog is 31.

 

[David Argall]

poll results

57, and one who can recall pre ADD days.

We can't conclude too much from our poll. As noted, we are the minority voluntary responses of the minority who frequent this one forum, who are the minority who are on the internet, who are ... That makes for a lot of ways we could get results entirely unrepresentative of the majority.
Still...

The cutoff after age forty fits the theory that you select your timewasing games in your teen years for the most part. When ADD PHB and DMG came out in 79, they hit the best sellers lists. So we expect nearly all our players to be under 20 in 1980, which makes them under 40 today. And we would expect to see smaller sets of youngsters coming into the game in succeeding years. So there is reason to worry about the long term health of the game.
Still, we are talking generations here, and there are possible good signs as well. The LOTR movies should be giving us a bump among other things, and we are talking in generations, which gives up plenty of time to recover.

However, don't blame a lack of exposure for any decline. Note the Foxtrot comic strip uses D&D play as one of its running gags. While the strip doesn't use much detail of the game, it assumes the reader has a general knowledge of what the game is. Our public is not all that ignorant.

 

[Dark Dragon]

28, and getting older But there are older (but not wiser ) people in my group. I started with AD&D (2nd ed.) in 1991.

This adventure was the first one I DMed (about nine years ago).

 

[jgbrowning]

wow. wish WoTC would gear their stuff towards us rather than the what, 18-23 crowd?


joe b.

 

[reapersaurus]

I never thought my age group would be the mode (or is that mean?)

32.