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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lacyon" data-source="post: 4184024" data-attributes="member: 63046">Absolutely. It's not just WoW - there's been a big upswing in the popularity of fantasy recently.You're definitely giving a lot of 13 year old gamers too little credit.My adventures (and the adventures of my peers) at that age sucked too, but only in comparison with things I've seen and done since. The cause had very little to do with how much or how little background material we had to go on - we could always fill in the blanks with info from novels or games or movies, and that's if we weren't just making it up. Inexperience and some less-than-stellar DMing advice had a lot more to do with the sucking in my case.It didn't matter much that they "sucked" though. Killing monsters is fun, and pretending to be elves is fun. We had plenty of time back then to keep trying until we got it right. We had a blast.My wife's 11-year-old sister is going to be picking up 4th edition this year, and she'll have another resource that I rarely had access to growing up - older gamers. She'll almost certainly look back on her early adventures as "silly" or maybe even "sucky" no matter how much help we give her - it's a function of being 11 that silly things are fun.</blockquote>