How old are you?

[National Acrobat]

33, 5 months away from 34. First started playing when I was ten (back in 1979) with the old blue book set. Still have it.

 

[Agnostic Paladin]

25. Opera unfortunately doesn't like the polls here; I have to vote four or five times before it finally loads the page with results instead of the poll. As to how many of those are getting counted, I do not know.

 

[Turgenev]

Your the type of group that marketeers fear! That, my friend, is a rather diverse age grouping.

Heh heh, that's nothing compared to the fact that one of the players is my wife and the other is my step-grandson (who loves the game and his half-orc barbarian) - I'll leave you guys to figure out which is which.

Cheers,
Tim

 

[LGodamus]

22 will be 23 july 4th.............started playing at the end of 1989.

 

[Broken Fang]

I'm CR 33...no wait...I am 33. Been playing since 1979 (I think) back in the days of the old small beige Greyhawk boxed set. I think I might even have it around somewhere.

 

[Buttercup]

Over 40. Sometimes it embarrasses me a bit, because heck, here I am hanging out on the internet, you know? But screw that attitude, eh? My life is lots more fun than it was when I was 20 or 25, or even 30.

 

[mirzabah]

I'm 38. Played (1st ed.) for a while from 1979-1983 or so. Then didn't play again until fall 1999 (and that was an online pbem game). Didn't play "tabletop" again until April, 2001.

Sounds a bit like my own story - stopped gaming in the mid-80s and took it up again a couple of years ago. I didn't do the pbem thing. I did ask to join one once, but they were worried I might be a bit "old-school" for them. Did I feel crusty or what

First try at getting back in the saddle I posted a couple of ads online (DM looking for players kinda thing). This turned out to be a disaster as one of these guys turned out to be the gamer from hell. Serious ego problem. He was responsible for the most excrutiatingly painful gaming session I have ever been a part of - worse even than the time some twink brought an assas... ahem... fighter/thief to an open table. The rest of the guys were great, but I was so disheartened by this one turkey that I let the whole thing drop.

Second go was much more successful. I managed to get in touch with a couple of guys I used to play with in the 80s - better the devil you know

 

[mirzabah]

Over 40. Sometimes it embarrasses me a bit, because heck, here I am hanging out on the internet, you know?

You're kidding, right? 40? Your avatar doesn't look a day over 30.

 

[EricNoah]

Heh...

Chits! Gah! We kept ours in an egg carton.

Those old covers really take me back... I wonder, could someone make some avatar-sized pics of every D&D "edition" out there, and then folks could use them in their sigs or something to signify when they started playing. Mine would look like this:

 

[Buttercup]

You're kidding, right? 40? Your avatar doesn't look a day over 30.

Why, thank you.