D&D General How old are you?

[Maelish]

Let's see how the 5E forum compares to the general ENWorld readership and WotC's own demographics report.

This poll made me think about how much more fun it would be if the poll asked, How Old Are Most Gamers? Or combine that with the first question. I wonder if most people in age-range X would assume most gamers are their own age?

 

[BrokenTwin]

I fit into the catagory of:

Old enough to legally do "IT" and young enough to still enjoy/do "IT".

< HA Ha ha >

I did not know you needed to be a certain age to do sewer-dwelling evil clowns. Their preferences tend to skew young.

 

[Stormonu]

I'll be 50 in May. I got the Holmes edition for Christmas in around '80 (all I remember was it was 4th grade). Lost the rulebook (actually, I think my dad my have hid it/thrown it out), but had B2 for reference until I bought a Moldvay basic set at the Red Barn flea market a year later.

My two current game groups consists of members who are 50, 45, 25, 23, 21, 19 and 16. Yeah, I do a lot of cat herding...

 

[Oldtimer]

You posted this on Tuesday, and now it's Thursday...happy birthday, Oldtimer!

Johnathan

Thank you. It was a good birthday.

 

[Viking Bastard]

I'm 35, started playing in '94 at age 9 via the RC as run by my best friend's older brother.

 

[Richards]

One of my players just turned 55 yesterday - and spent his evening playing in our 3.5 campaign like we do on most Wednesdays.

Johnathan

 

[the Jester]

But is 60+ old enough to describe @diaglo?

 

[Parmandur]

34, started during the muddled 3.0-3.5 transition.

 

[Maelish]

I'm in my early 50's. Started playing in 1986 with 1E Ad&d. I often wonder what happened to the guys who introduced me to gaming back then during my highschool's homeroom.

Those same guys introduced me to Fritz Leiber. Thanks fellows!

 

[Fenris447]

Jeez. Normally I feel like an old man at 30. But y'all are making me feel like a little baby up in here. I started playing 3-4 years ago. Been playing 5e the majority of the time, though I've had a few dabblings into FFG Star Wars and Apocalypse World. I DM two 5e campaigns that each meet every other week, and play in two more 5e games that each meet once every 2-3 months.

Out of all those, only three players really played older D&D editions. But I love learning from them and from you all what the game used to be like. Can't appreciate what you have if you don't understand what came before.