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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 5261591" data-attributes="member: 22779">Yeah, I gotta go with RC on this one.  Of the gamers that I see in Maptool or OpenRPG, the overwhelming majority are late teens, early 20's.My current lineup is actually surprisingly old with three (and possibly four, I'm not sure how old one is) over thirty and two under 25.  My Sunday group was all early 20's and high school.  My group that went through the World's Largest Dungeon was all under 25 - of the twenty or so people who sat at the table - other than me.I realize this is anecdotal and all, but, I've seen a LOT of gamers over the past five or six years with online games, and they've all been hovering around the 17-25 range.I should dig out the last print Dragon I've got where Paizo polled its readership.  I know that in about 2006 or so (Not quite sure of the exact date) their readership was about 22 years old.  Which was actually younger from when they did a similar poll a few years previously.  I'm really not convinced that there is this huge greying of the gaming population.  What I do believe, in my gut anyway, is that those of us who started back in the 80's, and have stuck with the hobby, are fairly numerous and very visible because of the numbers.In other words, it's not that the average age of gamers is going up, it's just that the high end of the bell curve has a lot more people in it.</blockquote>