D&D General How old are you?

[77IM]

If you crunch the numbers, it turns out the average forumgoer is exactly "selection bias" years old!

 

[Fenris-77]

Surprisingly, how old do you want me to be wasn't one of the poll options.

 

[J-H]

The group I'm DMing for is:
18
21? Most knowledgeable player
23ish
25ish
36 (Me)
50ish
55ish

 

[David Howery]

two weeks shy of 60. Discovered D&D in college when I was 20. It's been a long fun trip...

 

[Nebulous]

Woo hoo! My category wins!!

 

[ccs]

56, started in 1980 and still have a nearly full set of pale blue dice and the original blue box adventure "In Search of the Unknown". The dice are uncolored as we had no idea what the crayon was for.

Lol. We too wondered about the crayon.

It was several years later as our group expanded that it occurred to any of us to color in the #s - one of the new players had these clear orange dice that were almost impossible to read. The group demanded that he use a thin-tipped black marker on the #s.
It was only then that my brother said something akin to "Hey, remember the crayon that came in the box?" Hmm....

 

[Ruin Explorer]

42.

I think a big part of this age-shape is that forums aren't really cool or exciting anymore.

If you're wanting to ask questions and get answers and so on, reddit tends to me more immediate (because of the massive numbers of users and it being essentially one giant super-forum), as do various Discords (albeit reddit is more likely to get you a correct answer than any non-specialist Discord). I mean, if I was new to the internet today, no way I'd go to forum, I'd probably be on reddit/Discord tons though.

20+ years ago, though, when the internet was still shiny and new? They were awesome, and they're still a format of communication that I like, because you can actually think about stuff (not that I cared about that 20+ years ago).

 

[Morrus]

I mean, if I was new to the internet today, no way I'd go to forum, I'd probably be on reddit/Discord tons though.

Well, Reddit is a forum, albeit a massive one.

The main difference is approach is the use of threaded views rather than linear views (same as Facebook uses).

Forums have their place; they're where you go for long-form discussion. Most social media doesn't do that well. Of course, that's not what a lot of people are looking for - social media is good for that quick fix of a few quick replies immediately. A forum will be slower, but more in-depth.

 

[Perun]

Two months shy of 42, found out about D&D in '91 or '92, but only started playing in 1994 with a 1e/2e mix, and that's the rule set I've got the fondest memories of.

 

[Helldritch]

Got 50 today. I started as a player in 1980 with "basic" D&D. Started mastering at 12-13 and never stopped since then (took a 3 years break for reasons related to work.).