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Yeah, there's some real issues with top-end in a lot of game systems that, depending on pace-of-advancement make this really complicated.

But have they? I've seen one person say he saw them a lot locally withing a specific slice of time in the past, and one or two person...

I don't have push alerts, and at least when I'm home I've pretty much been surgically attached to my computer for a long time (and I...

Fair enough. But as I've noted before, when I've seen pretty good trends over the decades talking to people in a lot of different...

Picture of me a few years back at the start of COVID, getting ready to go out to buy groceries.

I don't mean to denigrate your data; just noting that fundamentally its easy to end up with apples-and-oranges comparisons without...

Just a note: Were all of these weekly? Because in practice, a 3 year campaign that only runs every other week isn't the same beast as...

TSR did them, too. One around 1991; I recall the average on the early 90's one was just over 2 years, but the median and mode were both...

Given I'm "denigrating" my own play preferences by doing it by your standards, I'm afraid I can't take this seriously. So understand...

Did they throw them out, or did they just not weigh in enough to matter? I mean, seriously, there's an intrinsic problem here; the only...

Yeah, but I can't help but think "different techniques" and "work against each other" aren't really the same thing. Yup. Frankly, I...

I don't have any specific RPG in mind. However it seem like any system with fail with consequences and poor GM guidance would be...

My tranquility improved greatly once I realized everyone else was wrong. 😉

Its not quite as strange if you assume they either A) Don't want to do the work, or B) Don't have any faith in their personal ability to...