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Or of various ages? Or is there a range centered around your age?

A thought that has occurred to me recently as I've been the main GM for all my groups for the last 6 years. All of the players have been, mostly, younger than me (except in about 2-3 cases). Now, I'm not saying I'm a master old fart (I'm a balmy 36 soon to be 37), but I'm feeling a sort of "life/responsibility" divide from my regular group.

The group are all guys, 23-27. Most in relationships with SOs, and most having recently finished Bachelor's or Master's programs. So, it isn't a matter of intelligence or income or anything that's causing issues. It's age, simply put.

Case in point; we're all busy, and can only game once a month. However, "busy" for me is actual work stuff, or family stuff, or home maintenance, or just trying to squeeze in more time with the wife since we barely saw each other all week thanks to wonky schedules.

For these guys, "busy" is next party, or gotta meet their girlfriend for a bit, or the like. When we game, they often go out afterwards to a club or party or something whereas I inevitably have to go home to get back to the family, or for some work function. And I like it that way; haven't the slightest interest in the club scene (I am very much a "homestead" sort of guy).

Even when we sadly need to cancel a game, as happened for next week's game: I've had to cancel for, you guessed it, family reasons; they usually cancel because "such and such exhibit is in town" or "I'm going with other friends to blah blah far place for the weekend" or whatever.

Now, not saying their a bad lot; they ain't, and we're friendly and do have a coffee or conversation now and then. It's just, well, to me, just a little, they're kids. I know, I know, they're adults and have jobs and have all sorts of sex and can buy x-rated things and understand what responsibility is. But...they're still kids to me, sort of. Which is why, sometimes, I feel I dominate the group just a little more than I ought to.

It's also a comment my wife made once. Back when we lived in Japan, my gaming group was all my same age, and, well, my wife sort of "respected" my "guy time" away from home; I was out with the guys, after all. But recently, I was talking about some stuff happening with this group in a game session, and she said something along the lines of "well, what do you expect? They're too young to know that! Duh!"

So, my question is: do you prefer to game with people around your own age? Or near it? Or something like that? Or it doesn't matter? Or it matters and you like a wide range of ages for that reason? Or what?

(note: it's over on the Big Purple too, just to cover different ground)

It would be great to be playing rpg games with friends around my age.  But unfortunately I don't have many local friends who are interested in a regular rpg campaign.

Over the last few years, I've largely played rpg games at gaming stores, community centers, college campuses, etc ...  Most of the people I never really got to know personally outside of the game.  We just went to the game at the designated time, and afterward we all left going our separate ways.

Most of the people I game with are between 30 to 55 or so. That seems to work well for us. Every once in a while someone in their twenties joins the group.

Live groups are mainly age 40 and up, though Igabr has added a few 25-32 recently, mainly females.  

Online is different.  My Steel Isle group is all 18-23.  they keep me young.

In my current game, I have two players in their 20's, and two in their 30's.

More than age, though, I think it really depends on the personality, maturity, and dedication of the player. I've played games with a bunch of 18-year-olds that were phenomenal and I've played games with people in their 50's that were slow and boring -- and vice versa.

I play with people who are a variety of ages. One of my groups is all my age give or take a year, another trends on average about two years younger than me, and a third is about half guys in their late thirties and early forties and the other half is younger than I am. The first two groups are people I met in university and kept up contact with, the third group I met through a mutual friend and joined.

I would suppose it mainly depends on whether you are gaming with your friends, and how large an age range of friends you have to recruit from.

I do have a rule that I don't play in or run games for anybody under 18. They are often irritating, don't understand complex language, and don't have the attention-span to sit still for a 8-10 hour game. Plus, if an "adult issue" of some kind comes up in the game, I don't want to have to worry about censoring it because of someone's delicate ears.

Iplay on Wednesday afternoons after school with a bunch of middle school kids. that doesn't bother me--they're awesome. At the flgs, I tend to play with some pretty crusty 40 & 50-somethings. It's gets pretty raunchy sometimes, but I'm really in my element there. I think the key to my comfort level is consistent expectations. I'm comfortable in either group, but I wouldn't want to mix them.

In my group, the only one near my age (55) is my wife. The rest are ranging from almost 25 to 21. Most of them started gaming with me when they were about 13.

-clash

I'd much rather game with college age RPGers, but most conventions are the 35-45 group and their kids.

I like the energy of guys in their 20s. Most still believe they will have lives worth living and that's fun. Too many gamers my age (40) have become their own grandfathers. Between their obesity and their attitudes, I expect a big die-off of 80s era gamers in the next decade.

for the most part I game with guys who are 10+ years older than me, or girls who are 10+ years younger than me. Most of the guys my age still haven't made it out of the D&D-as-a-videogame phase yet.

Quote from: Spinachcat;494149Too many gamers my age (40) have become their own grandfathers. Between their obesity and their attitudes, I expect a big die-off of 80s era gamers in the next decade.

LOL!!! Could be! -- I know a lot of 80's era people that fit that bill. Those are the kind of gamers I try to stay away from. They're simply unpleasant to be around.

Nephew: 15, Niece: 12
Friends from 23-37

I'm 39.

Nope. I enjoy gaming with who I am gaming with, age isn't a big factor.

I consider myself lucky because my group (38-44 years old) either grew up playing with me or is composed by fellow artists/writers of the comic book scene who share with me a great passion for anything creative. This allowed us to play at a stead pace for twelve years now.

And I often do after-school activities with kids 8-10 which are based around very simplified forms of RPGing, so I haven't problems with kids either and they do enjoy these activities a lot.

Strangely enough, I had my "mid-life crisis" between 25 and 30 years old. I basically stopped playing and thought that RPGs were an happy memory of my youth, drifting away. Thinking back, it coincided with when TSR sucked and WoD was all the rage.

Quote from: Spinachcat;494149Too many gamers my age (40) have become their own grandfathers. Between their obesity and their attitudes, I expect a big die-off of 80s era gamers in the next decade.

Quite a number of guys I played rpg games with in the past, fit this description.  A few of them have died already, due to health problems (ie. cancer, etc ...).

Quote from: Blazing Donkey;494153LOL!!! Could be! -- I know a lot of 80's era people that fit that bill. Those are the kind of gamers I try to stay away from. They're simply unpleasant to be around.

Definitely.

This is the main reason why I haven't play any regular games lately using older editions of D&D/AD&D.  The individuals who I've come across locally who are interested in older editions, are generally very unpleasant to be around with.

Quote from: Blazing Donkey;494128*snip*
More than age, though, I think it really depends on the personality, maturity, and dedication of the player. I've played games with a bunch of 18-year-olds that were phenomenal and I've played games with people in their 50's that were slow and boring -- and vice versa.

This...
For out of game chatty stuff I do prefer folks my age or thereabouts, say 30-50.

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There are age differences which can become problematic. I value out of the game talk, and when we had very young  (ca. 17-19) people in a campaign once, it turned out their experiences and interests were so different from us we had very little common ground outside the game. With people my own age or older, we could talk politics, conspiracy theories, genre and nongenre media we liked or hated, daily adult problems or whatever. These folks were just too distant from all that, and we from them. One reason our campaign died was that we had too little to say to each other when not throwing dice. That bothered me, and I guess them as well.

Which is not to say this goes for everyone outside the +/- 5 years bracket. I have gamed in campaigns and one-off adventures where it never came up, and all was fine. But it can become an issue, just like a huge difference in playstyles can become an issue.

Quote from: Melan;494178There are age differences which can become problematic. I value out of the game talk, and when we had very young  (ca. 17-19) people in a campaign once, it turned out their experiences and interests were so different from us we had very little common ground outside the game. With people my own age or older, we could talk politics, conspiracy theories, genre and nongenre media we liked or hated, daily adult problems or whatever. These folks were just too distant from all that, and we from them. One reason our campaign died was that we had too little to say to each other when not throwing dice. That bothered me, and I guess them as well.

Which is not to say this goes for everyone outside the +/- 5 years bracket. I have gamed in campaigns and one-off adventures where it never came up, and all was fine. But it can become an issue, just like a huge difference in playstyles can become an issue.

This has been my experience as well.
:)

Quote from: Numa Pompilius;494120So, my question is: do you prefer to game with people around your own age? Or near it? Or something like that? Or it doesn't matter? Or it matters and you like a wide range of ages for that reason? Or what?

(note: it's over on the Big Purple too, just to cover different ground)

I don't care too much about it. I'm the oldest at my 3 groups (35), but most of my players are in the late twenties to early thirties range, so it's not a big deal. One of my players is 21, but it's irrelevant, too.

Quote from: Numa Pompilius;494120So, my question is: do you prefer to game with people around your own age? Or near it? Or something like that? Or it doesn't matter? Or it matters and you like a wide range of ages for that reason? Or what?

I prefer to game with people around my own age or older. IME the age difference sometimes gets in the way of how some players relate to my games.

Regards,
David R

I play in three separate groups at the moment, the first two are on-running groups of friends I've played with for the last decade or two. Everyone in those are roughly the same age (give or take) as me.

The third group is comprised of some young Swedes I fell in with after running a combat course for them. I'm more than double their age which, in combination with different cultural backgrounds, make them an interesting experience to game with.

Whilst I can happily debate, argue, joke and so on with them - their youthful ebullience countering my domineering experience - I do suffer some troubles when making reference to literature and 70's/80's pop culture.  Raised with the internet and ubiquitous computers they have hardy read any books, let alone watched what I'd consider classic must-see movies.

So I educate them slowly, even showed one his first ever B&W movie - I kid you not! Still this is a boon in some respects as I have been running plots and settings which they have no prior knowledge of; for example The Many Coloured Land was a novel experience for them.

Their shocking lack of general education aside, my only real issue playing with or running games for them is their inability to turn off their mobile phones. But I handle my obviously Luddite sensibilities since I'm participating in their world, not them in mine.

Quote from: Melan;494178There are age differences which can become problematic. I value out of the game talk, and when we had very young  (ca. 17-19) people in a campaign once, it turned out their experiences and interests were so different from us we had very little common ground outside the game. With people my own age or older, we could talk politics, conspiracy theories, genre and nongenre media we liked or hated, daily adult problems or whatever. These folks were just too distant from all that, and we from them. One reason our campaign died was that we had too little to say to each other when not throwing dice. That bothered me, and I guess them as well.

Which is not to say this goes for everyone outside the +/- 5 years bracket. I have gamed in campaigns and one-off adventures where it never came up, and all was fine. But it can become an issue, just like a huge difference in playstyles can become an issue.

This is sort of what I'm experiencing as well, as I tried to say in the OP.

Quote from: David R;494195I prefer to game with people around my own age or older. IME the age difference sometimes gets in the way of how some players relate to my games.

Regards,
David R

That's the other thing that's going on too - there are issues where in game I'll do something as an NPC and they won't get it, because the reference framework is missing. Sorta kinda.

Quote from: Numa Pompilius;494202That's the other thing that's going on too - there are issues where in game I'll do something as an NPC and they won't get it, because the reference framework is missing. Sorta kinda.

Yeah.
I made a comment with my online group with a Bandit group they were sling to ribbons, with one guy who had 1 hp left and had been hit three times saying, " Tis a mere flesh wound!!"
They didn't get it.  Arg.

Quote from: Numa Pompilius;494202That's the other thing that's going on too - there are issues where in game I'll do something as an NPC and they won't get it, because the reference framework is missing. Sorta kinda.

My antidote to that is running adventures which aren't dependent on specific references. You might get a lot out of my games if we share common ground, since they employ multiple layers of meaning, but I try to be sure they work independent of them, and there is always a common level everyone can relate to and act upon ("You are in an exotic, dangerous city, and you have lost your memories - but others have not lost their memories about you.").

Also, to counter LordVreeg's post, I try to make my table a Python-free Zone. ;)

I prefer not to game with people my age, because I like to think of myself as still being in my early 20's instead of my mid 30's, and seeing people my age would break the illusion.  





I kid, I kid.  :D

In all seriousness, I don't really pay much attention to the ages.  When I was in school it was always with people my age but that kind of goes with the territory.  As an adult, I've gamed largely with people a little older than me, with a few exceptions.

The kid who used to game with us (now 17-18, but started at like 12-13) was actually one of my favorite players.  It was always refreshing to see someone who can just enjoy the game as-is, instead of over-analyzing every little thing (rules, characterization, tactical decisions in game, etc).

Most of my group consists of my friends, so we're close to the same age group.

Quote from: Numa Pompilius;494202That's the other thing that's going on too - there are issues where in game I'll do something as an NPC and they won't get it, because the reference framework is missing. Sorta kinda.

Yeah, there's some of this, but since every single group I've been part of had players who were not into the whole gamer SF/Fantasy genre interest, I tend to run games the way how Melan describes it.

I guess by "relate" I mean more of attitudes towards certain subject matter coloured by age or experience. The funny thing is, when I first started out I only gamed with people older than me, and I was very aware that I was participating (in Pete's words) their world not mine.

Regards,
David R

mmmm... no. I feel better playing in and running games for players of all ages from 13+

Playing with a mixed group tends to minimize the disruption caused by immature players. When an older player is being selfish and playing in a manner that disrupts the game and sees the reaction of the younger players they tend to rein in their firmness a bit and create less aggro because they don't want to be perceived as being a grognard. In addition, most older players want the younger players to enjoy the game, and so won't start any unneccessary vendetta's.

I don't care about the age as much.  Just that the people I game with are at similar points in life.  Now typically that usually means the people I game with are the similar age +/- 7 years.  But that still means the difference between the youngest person and the oldest is 10+ years.

My current AD&D table has players ranged from 10-49.

Granted, the 10 year old isn't always there, but even without him we're talking 21-49. I haven't really noticed all that much of an age issue, since we're otherwise from similar gaming cultures. So, 80's movie reference like Conan is fine, even with Driving Miss Daisy references would likely go over the younger folk's heads (not that it matters).

Quote from: ggroy;494160Definitely.

This is the main reason why I haven't play any regular games lately using older editions of D&D/AD&D.  The individuals who I've come across locally who are interested in older editions, are generally very unpleasant to be around with.

I totally hear you and it's a damn shame, really. I started a D&D 1e game at a RPG store about 8 years ago. Everybody who showed up was: A) Enormously fat, B) All in their 40's-50's, C) All rules lawyers, D) More interested in telling me how to run the game (as I was running it!) than staying in character and actually playing the game, E) Possessed of an extremely bad attitude.

I dumped the game after 4 weeks because it was simply too much of a pain in the ass to put up with all the garbage between the players and me (and each other).

Quote from: Melan;494178There are age differences which can become problematic. I value out of the game talk, and when we had very young  (ca. 17-19) people in a campaign once, it turned out their experiences and interests were so different from us we had very little common ground outside the game. With people my own age or older, we could talk politics, conspiracy theories, genre and nongenre media we liked or hated, daily adult problems or whatever. These folks were just too distant from all that, and we from them.

I've had that experience before....!

Sucks, doesn't it?

Quote from: Blazing Donkey;494230I totally hear you and it's a damn shame, really. I started a D&D 1e game at a RPG store about 8 years ago. Everybody who showed up was: A) Enormously fat, B) All in their 40's-50's, C) All rules lawyers, D) More interested in telling me how to run the game (as I was running it!) than staying in character and actually playing the game, E) Possessed of an extremely bad attitude.

I dumped the game after 4 weeks because it was simply too much of a pain in the ass to put up with all the garbage between the players and me (and each other).

Even outside of the game, these particular local individuals were very unpleasant to be around with.  It was like dealing with a bunch of 40 year olds who behaved like 12 year old kids, whether at a restaurant, mall, etc ...

A few I suspected were partially "mentally challenged", but still functional in their day jobs, where they didn't have to do a lot of thinking.

Quote from: Blazing Donkey;494139I do have a rule that I don't play in or run games for anybody under 18. They are often irritating, don't understand complex language, and don't have the attention-span to sit still for a 8-10 hour game.

I don't think that I have the attention-span to sit still for a 8-10 hour game! :eek:

My current group consists of my family and friends so 42 to 56. 4 to 5 hours of gaming is enough for us.

I generally prefer to play with people of the same species. Meerkats are certainly excellent after-dinner conversationalists, but their game playing skills leave much to be desired.



Just my experience...

In general I think I prefer a mix of ages, where there is a variety of cultural reference points vs. groupthink.
The group I play with on Saturdays are all about the same age and sometimes it's like playing with a hive-mind... they all like the same movies/music/food.
I'm the same age as them but culturally different enough that a lot of their references skate past me.

There are currently two 12 year-olds in the group, while the rest of us are young 30s. None of us really mind it that much. Both of their dads play along, and though we get a but rowdy, it's nothing out of hand.

I consider it my geek duty to pass the hobby on to the next generation, and hopefully we're doing just that.

No, I don't feel more comfortable gaming with people my own age.

If you're a pleasant person to be around, you're welcome to play in my games. If you're a douchebag of some stripe, you're not welcome. That's pretty much it.

Depends on the game, and the social setting.

At a game-store with an open-table game, I'll play with anyone.

If it's a home-game, generally I'll draw from friends and acquaintances around my age, give or take a few years, same as I would most other social activities, excepting family/work related things.

That's not to say I wouldn't game with someone older or younger if I got along with them well-enough on a non-gaming basis.

Quote from: Peregrin;494394At a game-store with an open-table game, I'll play with anyone.

Famous last words. ;)

I once tried playing a game of Rifts with some teenagers at a RPG store. The GM was 13.

One of the PC's was a Full Conversion Borg and he thought it would be funny to grab my character and hold him up in the air in the middle of a fight. I ended up getting shot three times for 40 points of damage.

So when he put me down, I cast Carpet of Adhesion on him which stuck him to the ground, immobile. Then I dropped a Fusion Block at his feet and ran away. It blew up for 120 points of damage, kiling him.

The player who was around 16 got all cry-faced, and the GM yelled, "You can't do that! You're out of the game!"

I've had the same sort of thing happen in similar games with young players so I just avoid them in general.

Hopefully you've had different experiences...

Quote from: Darran;494326I don't think that I have the attention-span to sit still for a 8-10 hour game! :eek:

My current group consists of my family and friends so 42 to 56. 4 to 5 hours of gaming is enough for us.

I find that 3-4 hours is more than enough.  Most of my group get pretty tired/bored after 4 hours.  I wouldn't play for 8-10 hours straight unless I was being paid.

I game with guys my age, but I'd add someone younger to the group in a heartbeat. I've spent most of the last 10 years in one university setting or another, and like several of the other posters I find younger folks to be easier to deal with sometimes.  Then again, I'd sooner light myself on fire than reference Monty Python in any context. Ugh.

Beyond being above the legal drinking age I'd consider anyone with the right attitude towards the game at our table.

Quote from: Numa Pompilius;494120Or of various ages? Or is there a range centered around your age?

A thought that has occurred to me recently as I've been the main GM for all my groups for the last 6 years. All of the players have been, mostly, younger than me (except in about 2-3 cases). Now, I'm not saying I'm a master old fart (I'm a balmy 36 soon to be 37), but I'm feeling a sort of "life/responsibility" divide from my regular group.

The group are all guys, 23-27. Most in relationships with SOs, and most having recently finished Bachelor's or Master's programs. So, it isn't a matter of intelligence or income or anything that's causing issues. It's age, simply put.

Case in point; we're all busy, and can only game once a month. However, "busy" for me is actual work stuff, or family stuff, or home maintenance, or just trying to squeeze in more time with the wife since we barely saw each other all week thanks to wonky schedules.

For these guys, "busy" is next party, or gotta meet their girlfriend for a bit, or the like. When we game, they often go out afterwards to a club or party or something whereas I inevitably have to go home to get back to the family, or for some work function. And I like it that way; haven't the slightest interest in the club scene (I am very much a "homestead" sort of guy).

Even when we sadly need to cancel a game, as happened for next week's game: I've had to cancel for, you guessed it, family reasons; they usually cancel because "such and such exhibit is in town" or "I'm going with other friends to blah blah far place for the weekend" or whatever.

Now, not saying their a bad lot; they ain't, and we're friendly and do have a coffee or conversation now and then. It's just, well, to me, just a little, they're kids. I know, I know, they're adults and have jobs and have all sorts of sex and can buy x-rated things and understand what responsibility is. But...they're still kids to me, sort of. Which is why, sometimes, I feel I dominate the group just a little more than I ought to.

It's also a comment my wife made once. Back when we lived in Japan, my gaming group was all my same age, and, well, my wife sort of "respected" my "guy time" away from home; I was out with the guys, after all. But recently, I was talking about some stuff happening with this group in a game session, and she said something along the lines of "well, what do you expect? They're too young to know that! Duh!"

So, my question is: do you prefer to game with people around your own age? Or near it? Or something like that? Or it doesn't matter? Or it matters and you like a wide range of ages for that reason? Or what?

(note: it's over on the Big Purple too, just to cover different ground)

It sounds to me like your problem isn't with age, its playing with a group of people that lack a sufficient commitment to gaming.

A few of my gamers are very busy people as well; I have some students, layabouts, and public employees of course, but also some professionals; as well as people who are involved in many other activities; a number of musicians (serious ones), people who are involved in martial arts at a very high level, guys that are in a choir, all kinds of other hobbies, obviously masonry being one of them for me at least; about half of my gaming group are in a serious relationship (several of which are living with or married to their significant other), a couple have kids.

And yet I manage to run 2-3 different games a week, and even the busiest of the people I've described manages to play once every 2 weeks.

The question isn't how busy you are, its how high you prioritize gaming in your list of other social, personal or hobby activities.

RPGPundit

All of my regular group is within 3 years of my own age (I'm 31; we range from 28 to 34).

We have one very occasional player in his late 40s or early 50s, though. He is a swell guy, great gamer and very easy to get along with, but not a regular player in our group (yet).

As a kid (late teens to early twenties) I had some bad gaming experieneces with older folks, but I attribute this to the fact that said people were the local catpissman and his gang of rejects with poor personal hygiene, which has nothing to do with age.

Quote from: Blazing Donkey;494402Famous last words. ;)

Any social thing that involves people you don't know is a crap-shoot.  You just have to feel the people out the best you can and try to get with people you think will be fun to hang around for a bit.

Quote from: jgants;494428I find that 3-4 hours is more than enough.  Most of my group get pretty tired/bored after 4 hours.  I wouldn't play for 8-10 hours straight unless I was being paid.

It depends on the size of the group.  My main sessions are Sunday from 6 to midnight, but we also eat dinner and go through copious amounts of wine.

I somehow can run 2 players in pretty concemtrated game for 8 hours straight...but bigger groups are harder most of the time.

Minor threadjack:

Quote from: Blazing Donkey;494402So when he put me down, I cast Carpet of Adhesion on him which stuck him to the ground, immobile. Then I dropped a Fusion Block at his feet and ran away. It blew up for 120 points of damage, kiling him.

Most criminally underrated spell ever!

For some reason, level 4 spells were the best. Carpet of Adhesion, Charismatic Aura and Shadow Meld were my typical choices (I stopped picking up or recommending Fire Bolt for 1st-level Ley Line Walkers when I realized that a good energy rifle would give me similar or greater damage without burning precious PPE).

Magic-using classes in Rifts were never about Teh DPS. There's no sense treating your wizard like an artillery piece when you have, y'know, actual artillery pieces in your adventuring party. Crowd-control stuff was always a winner with my magic-user PCs.

/end threadjack

I feel really uncomfortable not gaming with people in my age group.  Playing with people younger than me makes me feel like a creepy old man, and playing with people older than me makes me feel like I'm the victim of creepy old men.

It should also be noted that I'm incredibly neurotic and what most men would describe as "high maintenance."

I worry more about the quality of players than age.  And young players generally can be made into quality gamers if they but have maturity.

In any case, the youngest player in my current gaming groups is 14 (the son of another gamer in the group); and he plays fairly well.  The oldest regular member of my group is maybe 10 years older than I.

RPGPundit

A good variety of ages in the game can produce a lot of vibrancy. Everyone won't have the same references/attitude, so things really pop.  Several years ago I had a high schooler in my group, recruited from the local store. He was a good player, but I insisted on his parents coming over for a one-shot session so they understood who was there and what we were doing. It was the first time they'd ever participated in their child's hobby.  They didn't "become gamers", but he said he was glad it happened because they understood the appeal/fun of the game, and even some of the benefits (social, mathematical, tactical, etc.)

Right now we have a very homogenous game group in terms of age, all in our 30s.  If a chair opens up (someone moves, etc.) I have a few 20-somethings on my back bench that I'd love to bring in.

Quote from: B.T.;494690Playing with people younger than me makes me feel like a creepy old man, and playing with people older than me makes me feel like I'm the victim of creepy old men."

WTF games are you playing? FATAL?

Quote from: B.T.;494690Playing with people younger than me makes me feel like a creepy old man, and playing with people older than me makes me feel like I'm the victim of creepy old men.

Curious: I never had these feelings at the table, but reading anything published for D&D 4E makes me feel both ways at the same time.

Quote from: The Butcher;494681Carpet of Adhesion

Most criminally underrated spell ever!

Tell me about it! And there's no saving throw either; you can save for 1/2 the duration, but you're still stuck no matter what.

I've used this spell to stick giant Coalition Abolisher robots to the ground in strategic places where they could be easily destroyed and I've also used it to counter super-fast types like Juicers and Borg so they can't run away; their super mobility becomes useless & they take a severe penalty to dodge.

In Palladium, a Knight was riding past me on a horse and I cast it on the horse itself which came to dead stop, but he did not! He went flying and crashed really hard, taking a bunch of damage. And then I killed him with a big rock. :D

I hope my RIFTS wizard isn't reading this thread!

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Quote from: TristramEvans;494863WTF games are you playing? FATAL?

I was wondering the same thing. Geez.

Yanno....


I've never actually gamed with people my own age. I mean, one or two players maybe, but even that was a rarity. When I was a little Pika, I was gaming with people ten to twenty years older than me. When I was an adult pika, I was STILL gaming with people five to ten years, or more, older than me predominantly (and really, this is the only time in my life I gamed with people 'Of my own age group'), and now that I'm a mature, fatbearded pika, I mostly game with people ten to 15 years younger than me.

And now I am inexplicably sad about this.

Quote from: TristramEvans;494863WTF games are you playing? FATAL?

LOL!

I just turned 39.  I guess gaming with people over 50 or so or under 20 might make me self-conscious.  I can't think of anyone I've played with who seemed 'too old', but I have a fair amount of experience playing with younger gamers.  My feeling there is that it depends a lot on how emotionally mature they seem; some 17 year olds are plenty mature enough, some 24 year olds still seem like children.