How old are you?

[Knightfall]

I'm the evil one!

30. Definitely not the oldest here or the wisest. But I am the most evil! Bwah-ha-ha...

Except maybe for P'Cat... no, on second thought, P'Cat's only a rat-bastard DM, not an evil rat-bastard.

Then again, his players might disagree.

Later,

KF72

 

[Paradoxish]

18, 19 in about two months. I feel so young now.

 

[bloodymage]

What's with you 40 plus weenies?

Guts:

David Argall

57, and one who can recall pre ADD days.

Me?

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[johnsemlak]

Well, I'm thirty now (per the post back a month ago). Eep!

However, as a lot of people on these boards who I respect tell me 30 is a very distinguished age, I guess I better believe them.



Cheers!

Thanks for passing that info on (re 20 being a distinguished age). I've got just one month of being 30 left.

 

[johnsemlak]

Re: poll results

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.

Regarding worrying about long-term health of the game:

I've got not access to figures on the games popularity, but here are a few things to consider

I remember seeing somewhere a stat that 80% of D&Ders are under 20. So, quite a few young 'uns are getting in the game. Probably, fewer than in the 80s (I don't know). Certainly, D&D has far more competition, but is still the stand-out leader in fantasy RPGs (a good sign for D&D). The US population growth, coupled with the spread of the game to new markets (Eastern Europe, for example) should provide new players.

I don't have any idea what the statistics are but I can't believe the LotR movies, plus the Harry Potter movies, plus whatever other fantasy movies follow, don't spike interest in the game. I hope WotC is trying to take advantage.

Another factor: Many people who started playing in the 80's have grown up now and are responsible adults (well, most of us), some of whom want to or have gone into game design. Which means there are far more people available to design high-quality game products than before (which accounts for a marked increase in quality of products)

 

[trentonjoe]

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

32.

mean= average

mode= # that appears most frequently (which seems like 27 or 31)

Median= number in the middle which if I had to guess would be somewhere around 30


ANd please note that while the most popular BRACKET is 31-35, it is most likely that the average AGE is in the 26-30 range. SO take that all you freaks born between 1967 and 1972.

 

[Danastes]

41 and getting older in Phoenix

Yeah, I started back when my friend intro me to the game, at that time only the Monster Manual was out for 1st edition and I created a character with help of some brown booklets. A few months after that the DMG and PHB came out and I been hooked ever since.

My age is 41, and of all the setting love spelljammer the best (also love the chronomancy book that wotc put out some time back)