Age of Roleplayers

[Steve Ames <steve@ns1.cioe.com>]

> Research done bu TSR in the early eighties showed their buying 
> audience averaged in the 12-15 year old
> range. I don't know of any more current research on this issue, but 
> we wave to take the 'collage' crowd
> of players as more the exception than the rule.

Why? I'd bet a lot that even that 12-15 year old data leaned a lot more
toward the 15 end (ie avg 14.3 or something). Take a look at all of the
RolePlaying is Evil movies of the period. All featured older kids.

GenCon and other gaming conventions don't really have a lot of 'kids'
(maybe just because they couldn't get supervisiou *shrug*).

We are the RPG generation pretty much. Want to snag a random 12 year
old and ask if he's ever played? Has he ever heard of D&D?

Anyone want to take a crack at finding more up to date statistics on
the net?

Oh yeah... and what Sean said.

						-Steve