How old were you when you started playing D&D?

[Dracomeander]

Early '76 I was 13.

 

[TerraDave]

Extrapolating from the various poles...

most EnWorlders started playing between 9-14 between 1979 and 1984, putting them between the ages of 29 and 39, or something like that.

The question for the future: how many 9-14 year olds are playing the new boxed set or the minis game, and how many will "graduate" to the full game...

 

[Brain]

I was 6 or 7 when I started with a friend who was a few years older.

 

[Gundark]

1985.....I was 12.....played a fighter....

 

[warlord]

I was 10 my uncle sat me and my twin down and taught how to play unfortunenately my twin drifted away after being corrupted by the media(Damn you NFL!) and i recently taught my 6 year old sister to play.

 

[arwink]

6 or 7 years old. Started running games when I was 10.

 

[Galethorn]

13 in 2000.

 

[Furry]

20, last year. I moved in and a all of my roommates had been playing for years. Started with 3 until we got 3.5 books, I had gotten to use Lightning bolt a few times and then they changed my baby...

 

[Richards]

I was around 13, I think.

Johnathan

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

9.

That distribution is definitely skewed young. Hook 'em early is apparently a good long-term business strategy, given that the EN World population probably represents a sample of more hard-core gamers with -- I'd guess -- a higher-than-average gaming budget.

Which implies a new slogan: "D&D. Like crack, only legal!"