How old is our gaming population of EN World?

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

Life starts at thirty.

So that means that anyone under thirty isn't actually alive, but in some strange state of not Undead yet not Alive?

 

[jgbrowning]

So that means that anyone under thirty isn't actually alive, but in some strange state of not Undead yet not Alive?

Well, you know the old quote, "Youth is wasted on the young."

I like to always add in however, "Old age is wasted on the elderly."

I plan on having a blast once I'm over 35.





joe b.

 

[Agback]

Perhaps next time around we could do one with a one-to-one ratio. Put it on your calendar for just before Gencon.

I figure that I might as well post the poll now, and raise it from the dead later. When is Gencon, anyway?

You said you wanted break points at college age/voting age (18, right) and drinking age (21 in the USA, right?). So what say we use three-year-wide bands from 12 to 51?

Regards,


Agback

 

[Mark]

I figure that I might as well post the poll now, and raise it from the dead later. When is Gencon, anyway?

Naw. Let this one run its course and then we'll have some numbers for comparison when the new poll comes around. Gencon (Indy) comes next August, I believe.

You said you wanted break points at college age/voting age (18, right) and drinking age (21 in the USA, right?). So what say we use three-year-wide bands from 12 to 51?

We should have the new one be one year per poll choice and run from 9 to 70. You'd be very surprised by the range of folks on this board. A number of board members have been introducing their youngsters (who may be signed up at this point) to gaming over the last couple of years and I think Mister Gygax hits 66 next June 6th...and there are actually older if we can coax them out!

 

[Epametheus]

Interesting. Do you frequent boards dedicated to specifically youthful interests, or a representative sample.

Gaming and webcomic-related boards, for the most part. Most of the people one finds on those boards are in the 15-20 range or so -- high school geeks, or college students killing time. Once you get to the upper-limit of college age, or go past it, the number of people in the community at that age tends to drop off drastically.

 

[Umbran]

So what say we use three-year-wide bands from 12 to 51?

Make the bands too narrow, and you start having a difficult time reading the thing, as you'll tend to see some of the bands will be underpopulated just by random scatter in the sample.

 

[BOZ]

i still have almost two years for voting in the 26-30 category.

 

[d20Dwarf]

Not to get off subject, but the game is massively more complex now than it was when I began. I also remember how hard it was to conceptually get over the idea that you don't have to know all the rules to play the game "correctly."

Coming from a more standard "games have set rules, these rules cannot change, if you do change the rules you're cheating" mentality, stepping into the role-playing mindset was hard enough before the almost 640 pages of rules a new DM has to know.

I guess, in short, the learning curve is steeper now. But even then, by this poll, roughly 1 out of 5 gamers is 21 or younger. Not to bad for such a complex game.

joe b.

Are ya sure, Joe? Or do you just recognize more of the game's complexities now than you did in the past? I just don't see it as more complicated than some past editions.

 

[Bran Blackbyrd]

Turned 27 on Nov. 8th.

I've been wasting time on D&D for over half of my life.

 

[Sir Trent]

I just like bumping... 37 here