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Agree with @Thomas Shey on this one. They may be poor quality data compared to some other types, but often that is all we have to work with.

Sometimes, in cases like this, deferring to the player who knows stuff can be a good approach. Horses are a common sight in fantasy...

And I have to note, not all gaming groups have particular close connections outside of gaming. When I was younger I used to go to...

"Steady stream" probably overstates it. Keep in mind, again, I'm talking about information I've gathered over a half century. Most...

From everything I've heard over the years, even some well known publishers have side gigs at least, and the number of indie producers...

The problem is this writes off whole categories of social science as "not science" because all you can get are anecdotes. And sometimes...

Yup. It explicitly draws a line between PCs and most NPCs, but in a way its like Bill Zebub said upthread: you can have realistic, no...

When I'm talking about possibly exceeding 400 groups, you could perhaps assume (correctly) that I'm exceeding that. Now, you can argue...

As far as I can tell, that's true of a lot of the one-man-bands in the hobby. At best, they consider it a vaguely money making...

That would describe the majority of it, yes. Though the amount I've acquired since then doesn't seem to point to significant change...

Enough anecdotes are data, no matter what anyone tells you. In social situations, its all anecdotes in the end; its just a question of...

As I've noted before, though I think doing it on-the-fly is a suboptimal way to do that, I can at least respect that from that point on...

That would come under "trash the rule". To me it's one and the same, as rulings set binding precedents for the rest of that campaign.

While obviously not scientific, I'd buy that more if I was working from a small sample size.

I'm not afraid to say that there is a certain charm to things like buffet ribeye. It's kinda analogous to the greaseball burger. It's...