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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 3987936" data-attributes="member: 2067">I don't think this point is entirely accurate, either.It's never really tried to appeal to the whole 7-10 crowd wholeheartedly, but it has always held a special interest for the 12-22 crowd. Which, given most 12-13 year old's semi-obsession with body parts, doesn't discount the topless appeal. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Talk to most people who play today, and it's evident that they began in middle school, high school, or college. Add to this the '2nd Generation'. Most people who play D&D today were born in the late 20th Century. The first wave of people who grew up in high school and middle school in the late 70's and early '80's have been settling down and raising families whose kids are fast approaching that ripe age where their parents got into D&D. Many parents let their kids in on D&D even earlier, the "daddy DM" being a story I've heard fairly often. This aligns with a general kid's interest in fantasy. YA and IR fantasy is HUGE, so right about the time these kids are starting to read on their own, starting into the HP series or the Chronicles of Narnia or A Wrinkle In Time, or whatever new fad is brewing, they're becoming interested in playing D&D and being these fantastic creatures and going on swords-and-magic adventures. This is the time when a lot of teenagers, in the '80's read Drizzit novels or the Dragonlance series. D&D has always started young, and recently, it's skewing younger. Now, it's possible that this wasn't deliberate at first, but I'm sure by now that it is. Of course, D&D has always been able to 'stride the line,' too. It's not so young-targeted that adults feel that they can't address some meaningful adult issues in the game.So while I doubt we'll ever really see 'Pre School Paladins Playground,' it would be pretty profoundly dull of D&D to not hit that young, gullible, fantasy-devouring market.</blockquote>

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