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D&D Stats: What The Typical 5E Party *Actually* Looks Like
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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 7790451" data-attributes="member: 18"><p>This pretty much sums the whole thing up. </p><p></p><p>D&D Beyond is always going to be deeply misleading because characters people create and characters people play are very, very different things. Just looking at my group we have me with a vast array of characters on my account, most of them just mucking around, only one of which I actually play (who is not the highest level one either) and my players vary widely, with one guy having his sole PC and nothing else, another having several variants of his main character to try out different builds (again, only one of which is played), two with several characters their kids made each (which are not played), another who has her actual character and four other "backups" and two guys who don't play characters at all, but are friends and who do DM, but have various characters. </p><p></p><p>Until D&D Beyond has some flag that shows PCs actually being played, which seems impossible, the basic data will be total junk, and it looks like the statistics applied were too. There is no possibility that the median played PC is MC with levels in Fighter, as you say.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 7790451, member: 18"] This pretty much sums the whole thing up. D&D Beyond is always going to be deeply misleading because characters people create and characters people play are very, very different things. Just looking at my group we have me with a vast array of characters on my account, most of them just mucking around, only one of which I actually play (who is not the highest level one either) and my players vary widely, with one guy having his sole PC and nothing else, another having several variants of his main character to try out different builds (again, only one of which is played), two with several characters their kids made each (which are not played), another who has her actual character and four other "backups" and two guys who don't play characters at all, but are friends and who do DM, but have various characters. Until D&D Beyond has some flag that shows PCs actually being played, which seems impossible, the basic data will be total junk, and it looks like the statistics applied were too. There is no possibility that the median played PC is MC with levels in Fighter, as you say. [/QUOTE]
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