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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wombat" data-source="post: 1078347" data-attributes="member: 8447">I always felt that I came to D&D the "natural" way -- I was nutty on the stories of King Arthur, on Greek mythology, and the like since I was about four years old (my mom groaned everytime I asked to hear Perseus and the Gorgon again, knowing full well that my brother wanted to hear Little Bear).  From these stories I moved briefly to miniatures gaming (I wanted to do Aginicourt and Hastings, my brother wanted to do Bull Run and Shiloh...).  D&D was my way to get into something I loved and move far away from re-enacting the American Civil War.The age of gamers is slowly creeping upwards.  Yes, there are still the archtypical high school gamers, but more of them are attached to PS2 or X-Box than to pen and paper gaming -- the Need For Speed, the pre-packaged adventures, the bright special effects and music are more of a draw than the work of having to create a character, much less a world.  RPGs have mainstreamed in that you can find them at Borders and Barnes & Nobles nowadays, but where are the Saturday morning cartoons that might introduce kids to the genre.Worse yet, we have a HUGE potential market in the Harry Potter fans, but there is no follow-up, no attempt to woo them.  If Hasbro/WotC was smart they'd come up with a very, very simple rpg, one that would appeal to grade school kids and prepare them for later, more complex games.Just my 2 coppers...</blockquote>