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I did this poll a few years back, and most folks were about my age (currently 29, I was 26 when I did the first poll). I was wondering if any younger folks have started playing Rifts since the conception of the GMG, BoM, Conversion Book 1 Revised, and most importantly RUE.

After you vote, just state what your first book was and when.

34. My first Rifts book was the second printing of the RMB, bought in october or november of 1990.

Why yes, I am an old fogey, thanks for asking. Now get off my lawn you damn kids!

31+, bought RMB in 1992.

No kids yet, thought.

33 years old. I myself have a second printing RMB from around October/November 1990.

And although I'm starting to feel a tad bit on the older side of things, playing and GMing Rifts (amongst other things) keeps me youthful.

And the wife and I are awaiting our first child!

32 years old...no kids, but paired off with a wonderful woman 2 yrs. my senior who I met when I was reecruiting for my Rifts game.
FIRST Palladium book was Robotech (Macross), and have since branched off to other settings in the megaverse.
Still have my first edition first printing of the Rifts Main Book; including the original +21 to strike for Hand to Hand basic combat at level 2

hi

im 27, my first book was the rifts main rulesbook from 1992, i bought it in 1994

c ya

Zerebus wrote:I'm 26, and the fact that I'm still younger than most of you does nothing to disuade me from thinking that I'm too old to be playing these games...

What did ya say sonny?
Dang...my hearin' aid must be busted...can someone pass me my cane?

I'm 20.

My first Rifts Book was the Main Book which I bought when I was 8.

~ Josh

Turned 31 on the 12th of November.
Married. No kids and no plans for kids.
I was born with a D20 in my hand.

22, 23 in december.

i'm relitively new, i bought a used copy of the RMB back in...wow...1998. wound up buying more Robotech stuff at the time, and didn't get started buuilding up my RIFTS library till 02

33, 1st print RMB in '90.

i started playing around 92 . but me and my bud have been gaming since 10th grade ( 89-90) . elmagico was the default GM back then.....those were the days.

wow what a cute bunch of brats you all are,
age 36 sep 90 RMB(second printing),

I'm 18 right now, but I started right after I turned 15.

My group had two mainbooks, so I didn't see much of a point of buying another one.

My first official book purchased with my own money was actually China 1. However, I had read an odd +10-15 world books, borrowed of course.

Now I own a large amount of them.

Im 21 right now

I started in 97 when I was 16. My first book was Rifts Africa, and now I have 32 books.

I'm 35, my first contact with Palladium was Robotech:Macross (1987), played HU & HU2ed, then Rifts, don't play anymore mainly because nobody in my area plays any Palladium rpg....

I still have all my Robotech & HU books

25 first rifts games was when I was like 12.

31 married with three kids. Got into AD&D when I was 11 (though I wanted to buy one, AD&D, when I was 7). Saw Robotech in '87 got into BattleTech because I thought it was the closest thing. Found out about RT got into PB games. Started playing TMNT alot. Saw advertisement for Rifts and the game group was all, HEY it's like TMNT:Transdimensional meets RT! So we picked it up as soon as it came out. Kinda funny how the two games that brought me to Palladium are now gone. Anyways now I try to play anygame that hasn't been swollowed by the black hole genericness that is D20. It's sad that so many creators have thrown away their unique system to conform with D20. You know it was funny I was looking up the term munchkin and the related term munchkin master (a gm who give out stuff willy nilly) anyways basically it stated anyone playin in most MMORPG played in a Munchkin game.

35.

I started playing Palladium system games with Robotech in 1986. I discovered Rifts in 1990, by way of the original, 1st print, corebook.

I'm 35 years young, and retirment is the furthest thing from my mind right now. However I do play the Mega Millions lotto game in hopes that I'll never have to worry about it now or ever.

27, Rifts was first acquired 1990ish

31 now, started playing RPGs when I was 8 and the first game I ever bought was the original Palladium Books Robotech book (first printing, still got it).

I bought the Rifts Main Book in 1991, along with Sourcebook 1.
I bought Vampire Kingdoms right after that, along with a slew of other Palladium books.

38 and diviorced...alas...no lady gamer in my life any longer....

35, recently engaged, and have been gaming since age 7 or 8.

27 (in less than a month) married (for a year, she hates gaming ) no kids (when I do have kids and they are old enough I will make sure that they experience paper and dice role playing)

I find it statistically odd that the smallest range of ages 28-32 (only 5 years) yields the majority of gamers.... did anyone else notice that the ranges are different size spans? Why not ignore 1-5 as they probably shouldn't be playing yet and do:
6-10
11-15
16-20
21-25
26-30
31-35
36-40
41-45
46-50
50+

This way with the exception of the 50+ category we have consistent 5 year spans and would yield a more accurate depiction of gamer's ages.

I am 31 and have being playiong rifts since 92, howeve Iwas playing RT, HU, TMNT and N&SS since I got over D&D being the only RPG

Thinyser wrote:27 (in less than a month) married (for a year, she hates gaming ) no kids (when I do have kids and they are old enough I will make sure that they experience paper and dice role playing)

I find it statistically odd that the smallest range of ages 28-32 (only 5 years) yields the majority of gamers.... did anyone else notice that the ranges are different size spans? Why not ignore 1-5 as they probably shouldn't be playing yet and do:
6-10
11-15
16-20
21-25
26-30
31-35
36-40
41-45
46-50
50+

This way with the exception of the 50+ category we have consistent 5 year spans and would yield a more accurate depiction of gamer's ages.

The age groups were set up that way because Ive done this poll before and this has proved my hypothisis that newer gamers are not flooding into Palladiums market (its the same teenage catagory from 1990). It seems that most of the players were 13-18 when RMB came out and that seems to be the only people who play. World books and source books dont seem to bring in new players. I wanted to see if anybody new was playing ever since the newer GM/revised books came out.

I was kinda miffed when RUE was written as if you had to own the RMB first to make any sense out of it (story line wise-written in 109 PA as opposed to 101 PA). But apparently, Palladium was smart on this one and they dont really care about new players. They just want the same old ones to stick around. Their plan worked. They got my 35 bucks for RUE.

By the way, 580+ of you can look at the poll, but you are not going to vote? 500 of you just window shopped and it takes a good 5 seconds to hit submit!

Kagashi wrote:By the way, 580+ of you can look at the poll, but you are not going to vote? 500 of you just window shopped and it takes a good 5 seconds to hit submit!

well the view total is increased anytime sombody goes to the thread (even you) so many of the voters (such as myself) have visited more than once

Thinyser wrote:

Kagashi wrote:By the way, 580+ of you can look at the poll, but you are not going to vote? 500 of you just window shopped and it takes a good 5 seconds to hit submit!

well the view total is increased anytime sombody goes to the thread (even you) so many of the voters (such as myself) have visited more than once

Crap, thats 4 posts that I made so that AT LEAST 4 times I looked at this (more like 15 or so if I had to guess)!

im 21, started when i was 19.

rifts main book: I was 12 ish, 22 now

look at all the '20-30' age range players...

aw man...I'm in a new age bracket...

I'm 28 now.

I'm 24, and started in 1991.

25, married with 2 children (can see my wife and I with our first on the fairies web page, page 3 i think)

started gaming with TMNT in elementary school (can't remember exactly but I may have been around 10 or so, 60% of my life with a RPG book in my hand, what craziness now that I think of it)

Started rifts with the RMB also in elementary school (have a 1991 prining which would be consistant with grade 6 ot 7)

Tried introducing the wife to RPG's prior to the children, won't make that mistake again (love her with all my heart, but she just doesn't have the gaming personality).

24.

I'm 28, but I've been playing Rifts since I was... 15? 14? First book I bought was Palladium Fantasy, 1st edition (with the knight on pegasus-back charging the great horned dragon on the cover).

20 now (for two more month, drats!), 10 when I started pen & paper RPG's (Rifts). Have GMed for half that time. (How many more of these polls are there going to be?)

JayBuzz wrote:Polls are fun! I also have a 18 month old kid.
little future gamer. I have to keep my dice on top of the fridge, cause she with out fail finds them anywhere else

My 17 month old broke into my book case...My signed Dark Conversions book is now in about 15 "sections"...

26

Wife, a toddler but no dog (or cat.)

Picked up RMB in 1993 and been buying where I can ever since - few chance to play any more though...

Apparantly there are not many up there in age with me . 41 this year not married but been with same women for nearly 10 years an twin daughters .. First Palladium book ever for me was RMB and the extreamly sought after Wormwood back in the day . I cannot with any honesty remember when that was tho an so I do apologize I personally place it some time in the early 90's or late end of 80's . heh sorry .

I went from 3 books to 43 books in a month and a half ..

still trying to get the whole meta-plot tolkeen series .. its on order heh

-Lenwen.

26 sometime in the early ninties I played a PF Healer at summer camp I want to say 92


btw how long has this site been up?

26. will be 27 in April.

Lenwen wrote:Apparantly there are not many up there in age with me . 41 this year not married but been with same women for nearly 10 years an twin daughters .. First Palladium book ever for me was RMB and the extreamly sought after Wormwood back in the day . I cannot with any honesty remember when that was tho an so I do apologize I personally place it some time in the early 90's or late end of 80's .

-Lenwen.

You old fart. But the poll was kinda skewed a little, with a big group lumped in from 33 - 40

I'm surprised to see I'm in the majority...
28, been playing for at twelve years
First books (bought at the same time) were RMB (2nd printing IIRC), Atlantis, Vampire Kingdoms and South America 1. I hadn't played long, but thought those were the most interesting ones at the time. I liked the look of the Anti-Monster (still do), just so different and a hero class...

First Rifts book was R:UE. I bought it last summer.

The first Palladium book I bought was Monsters & Animals (first edition) in late 1990s; all my others were gifts. People like giving me stuff.

37y/o.
1st rpg played: D&D basic ed (red box?)
1st RPG purchase: Gamma World
1st Palladium game purchase: TMNT

I have almost the complete set for TMNT, just missing the Adventure book and Yucatan

Have majority of the RIFTS books.

Love Ninjas and Superspies but there is no love shown from Palladium