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<blockquote data-quote="ichabod" data-source="post: 9073043" data-attributes="member: 1257">I think it's good to look at house rule characters and see if they deviate significantly from the other data in other ways. One thing I am really concerned with is the 44.9% of characters who are level one. I think that's where your mass of unplayed characters are. Fifth edition is not lethal enough to kill half of all starting characters.If we look at the full data set, but trimmed of duplicate character IDs (which I am going to call the UID data from now on, and I think would be a good baseline for discussions), 44.9% are level 1. If we look at the ones without backgrounds, 50.5% are level 1. That's suggestive, but not a huge difference. However, if we look at characters with the default name ('&lt;username/&gt;'s Character'), 61.9% are level 1. I think that's enough of a variation to exclude those characters, at least if they are level 1.I would like to make it clear that you can give a name to a custom background. However, custom backgrounds are limited to three or four options based on how many skill, tool, and language proficiencies they give. So if you are doing something at all different with backgrounds, you would be leaving it blank. So I'm fine with leaving blank ones in.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ichabod, post: 9073043, member: 1257"] I think it's good to look at house rule characters and see if they deviate significantly from the other data in other ways. One thing I am really concerned with is the 44.9% of characters who are level one. I think that's where your mass of unplayed characters are. Fifth edition is not lethal enough to kill half of all starting characters. If we look at the full data set, but trimmed of duplicate character IDs (which I am going to call the UID data from now on, and I think would be a good baseline for discussions), 44.9% are level 1. If we look at the ones without backgrounds, 50.5% are level 1. That's suggestive, but not a huge difference. However, if we look at characters with the default name ('<username/>'s Character'), 61.9% are level 1. I think that's enough of a variation to exclude those characters, at least if they are level 1. I would like to make it clear that you can give a name to a custom background. However, custom backgrounds are limited to three or four options based on how many skill, tool, and language proficiencies they give. So if you are doing something at all different with backgrounds, you would be leaving it blank. So I'm fine with leaving blank ones in. [/QUOTE]

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