Really? I never played Dungeons and Dragons and am not familiar with how it's character set-up system works. Does Dungeons and Dragons allow you to pick how old your character is as well. And people in their teens in general were the most popular age to start out with.

Since present day rpg's kind of derived from Dungeons and Dragons I guess it would make sense for them to kind of have the same basis for their characters as D&D did.

But for people not familar with the Dungeons and Dragons system it makes the present day system seem a bit awkward.