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It seems like a fair comparison to me; it's perfectly reasonable to stick with a game you're having fun with. As best I can tell, the...

There are some people who cannot, or perhaps should not, DM. But out of a half dozen people interested in playing? I find it hard to...

If someone wants to play badly enough, then they can offer to DM. This is how I started as a DM. The reason that there is not a...

"More" players than GMs? Of course, if tables average 5 players you need a 1 to 5 ratio. "Far more"? You have no proof other than your...

Siiiigh. Yet again I have to point out that the survey you're quoting threw out all data received from any respondent aged 35 or over...

For that, they would need solid data why games die out. But, anecdotally, from personal experience and those around me, most games die...

When I win that billion dollar multi-state lottery I'll happily set up such a group. Of course I'd have to actually play the lottery in...

Another thing to remember is that something being “Hard” isn’t inherently a negative thing. In fact I’d say most things I enjoy are...

The survey (which who knows how accurate it was or how it was worded) was in 1999, which means it was still the TSR era of books. The...

And I'm saying that we have absolutely no clue how many people would be playing if we had more GMs. On the other hand, I think 1 in 6...

I'd give just about anyone a shot at it.

I've seen a fair number of people drop out simply because of demands on their time. Career changes, having kids, moving, not to mention...

I don't think any individual's experiences - one way or another - tell us much of anything. Do some games fall apart quickly? Of...

If 10% of all games fall apart quickly then some people are rarely going to experience it and for others it will be common. It is...

I didn't start at an FLGS, I didn't even know such things existed. At a certain point after many years of DMing I started going to cons...