New 'how old are we' poll

David Howery · Mar 8, 2004

hmm.. well, I just joined this site today, and this is my first post to it. I feel really old in this group, as I was born in 1960.. ok, bring on the grandpa jokes... :uhoh:

Snoweel · Mar 8, 2004

You and diaglo should get along famously.

RangerWickett · Mar 8, 2004

Born December 24, 1981.

I started roleplaying of sorts with Talislanta 2nd edition, when I was, like, 8 years old. I was the GM, sorta, though we had no dice, or even the rulebook. I just had the Naturalist's Guide (read: Monster Manual) and the campaign setting, and the biggest fight we had was when my one player shapeshifted into a Dragon and killed the king Dragon of the Saurads.

Later, I played the Star Trek roleplaying game with my brother and a couple other friends, then moved on to Mechwarrior, and finally, in the second half of 8th grade (age 14). I have introduced gotten 16 people to play through my games. Do I win a prize?

(David, Nathan, Ryan S., Jacob, Jessica, Georgia, Nic, Chad, Justin, Neil, Raul, Leena, Hamid, Matt, Kasia, and Holly)

Tallok · Mar 8, 2004

I'd say I'm probably one of the younger posters here, with '88, and barely, if I had been born about 20 1/2 hours later, I'd have been in 1989.

Agamon · Mar 8, 2004

1973. And we're soon creeping up on the the anniversary of the day I entered this world. Not sure what day it was I started playing. Pretty sure it was in the summer, though. But then that's a different poll that shows up every so often...

James Heard · Mar 8, 2004

Ottergame said:
Born 1981. Seems odd to me that there's a bunch of people here who've been playing longer than I've been breathing.

Born in 72. Rest assured, no one would have been impressed by my gaming in 1981 even though I can remember doing it. I think it took me a few years to realize that I needed more friends if I was going to game 'for real'. I was more a Squad Leader with dad kid back then anyways, the other major life-changing purchase back in 3rd grade. Dad wouldn't play D&D, but he'd kill Nazis with me.

bubbalin · Mar 8, 2004

It's interesting for me as a nerd to note that we seem to have a pretty nice normal distribution going in this thread... Of course, I will leave it to somebody else to analyse the statistical significance of that...

It's interesting that there seem to be a great many 81's on here, o whihc I am one... and sometimes it's weird when you see some familiar names (ie regular posters) and your mental image of them shifts dramatically because you thought they were older/younger...