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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elf Witch" data-source="post: 1571834" data-attributes="member: 9037">I am 46 (yikes when did that happen) and the one group I play with is made up of my roommate also 46 and five guys in their 30s most are married and two have babies on the way. We play mainly on Wednesday nights we used to play on Sundays but switched so the married guys could have more time with their families.I also am DMing a game for my roommate and two friends and we are all in our 40s.I play sometimes with my son and his friends who range between 20-25 I do notice that younger players ( I play with) are more obsessed with rules and are rather leery of house rules and are more into powergaming and killing things and less developing any story. I don't have a problem with any of this maybe because I have been involved with various SF groups, Trek groups and the SCA for years and they are made up of various ages. When I was in my 20s I hung out with people my own age as well as older people. The only time age ever was noticed was when I realized that a good friend of mine and a Star Wars fanatic had not been old enough to see it at the movies when it first came out and I was a newly married lady. We had a chuckle over it. I think actual age is realtive I have friends in their 40 just starting families now and my son is 25 and has a daughter so while they are just becoming moms I am a grandmother. I am going to school and most of the kids are 18-20 and I do notice that at first a lot of them don't treat me the same way they they treat their peers I think this has to do mainly with the fact that they don't know quite how to deal with someone who is more their parents and teachers equal and are unsure with the correct way to respond to me. As time goes on and we talk about class they relax and I do notice that I am always the one they come to, to borrow notes, pencils and scantrons. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> As for what nongamers think I don't care, all my hobbies have been looked at as weird. I have never hid what I do from other people if they have an issue with it then it's their problem not mine. I refuseto be ashamed of my hobbies.</blockquote>

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