Hi all.  

I am in my late thirties.  I figure that if I was going to grow out of this hobby I would have done it long ago.  Then, last week, I was chatting to a friend that I game with on an irregular basis, about what might happen when we get older.  When we are 60 or 70 will we still play D&D?  Will we do it less?  More?

What do you think?  This is not just a question for those who still game, it may be that you don't or rarely game now, but anticipate doing so in the future.

Regards.

Steven.

I would like to teach my daughter the game. I don't know if she'll have much of an interest though. She is only 3, so it will be a while. Then again, she does know how to use a mouse already.

Certainly when people are retired they will have loads more time.  And it is lack of time that stops me gaming more now.  

But, will I have the energy for it?  Or will I just want a nice warm blanket and a cup of tea?  (hmm, that sounds like me now, not when I am retired...   )

Just bought my soon-to-be-born daughter a fuzzy plush d20.

(I'll tell the uninformed it's to help her learn her numbers...)

In the short period, say for the next years, I think I will be able to keep playing regularly. However, I'm pretty positive that in the long run my gaming will decrease, especially after I get a regular job and position who-knows-where.

I have this growing feeling that time is a-wasting.  I want to play more and more often the older I get.  My goal is to train up my kids and infect them with the enthusiasm I felt as a youngster so they will write their own adventures and DM them for me.  Man, that would be sweet.

I still game now...every Saturday night.

    I have a friend who wants to stay in the Army until his officer's pension kicks in at 20 years...then he plans to move back here and game full time.

   My best friend has often said, "Oh, what games we'll have in the old folks home!  What games!"

   I have not told him yet:  I am convinced that the game of choice in the old folks home....I mean, sign out the box days in advance and fight to keep it....will be....vintage Axis and Allies.  

   "Ha!  Two sixes!  And that means I got...heavy bombers and....long range aircraft!  WOO HOO!  Can we have pudding now?"

Mark  

I voted for the will not change. But I don't play now. Three kids and running my own business does not leave time for much.

I might get together with the old group once or twice a year to play something, but that is about it.

It isn't the age, but the other commitments. The old gaming group guys who are not married or are and have no kids, still get together once a month or more and game. Pretty sad, when I can't even find time for that.

Now when they start heading off to college...

I imagine I'll train my kids and/or nieces/nephews.

But definitely when I retire I plan to go crazy...retirement not being until about age 70, unfortunately.