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Kind of. But as I implied earlier in thread, I think it also comes down to the fact that a lot of people simply don't want to GM and...

I love when people pushing AI talk about how it means we won't need GMs anymore. Even if I assume that might be true, in what mad world...

No, they don't count, because I do understand why people don't want to play those games. I'm perfectly OK with the inconsistency there...

Yeah, I understand it intellectually. After about two years, I almost always find myself starting to look for something new and exciting...

Because, "People should play other games in order to increase the pool of players I personally have to draw on," has zero chance of...

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...

It might be rude, if that's the expectation that's set. On the other hand, one of the reasons I can run any game I want, and one of the...

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...

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 think it is worth reupping this from the OP: The claim is not that a new DM shouldn't encounter any challenges. It's that the game...

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

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

It would be very interesting to get soem data on how people come to GMing. Is it more common for a group of friends to decide that they...

I think it's a little deeper than that. A lot of the support for simulationism comes with the attached idea of "I want to feel like...

The left-hand graph has a rather large and glaring flaw, as it implies that exactly 0% of the player base is 46 or older. Such is not...