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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 6822269" data-attributes="member: 29398">Then here's something that might surprise you.A few years ago I took a somewhat random sampling of about 100 characters that had been played in our games over about 30+ years (all using basically the same random roll-up system we've had since day 1) and ran a rough analysis of whether their initial rolled stats predicted their eventual lifespan using number of adventures played as a career counter.There was a small difference - much smaller than I expected - in those characters that ran for less than 3 adventures, and no difference at all once you hit the 3+ adventure point.What this means is that no matter what your initial rolls are, you're likely going to get just as much length of play (on average) out of any given character.  Put another way, the high-stat guys die off just as quickly as the low-stat guys. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Now here we have some vastly different expectations (and experiences?).  As DM, when I start a new campaign my intention is that it'll last for as long as people are willing to play in it, or the rest of my life, whichever comes first.  As a player I look for the same sort of idea behind a campaign I'm looking to join.  It doesn't always work out, but if the intent isn't there going in then sure as hell it won't work out.Experience, both as player and DM, tells me our campaigns are usually good for about 10 years.  My current one is coming up on 8, and the one I play in is closing in on 9; both have some legs in them yet.I just can't bring myself to forgive how he ruined the Ranger class as a whole.I figured somebody would.Except to me being drunk (whether me or anyone else) is something I can trust, while being on other things (whether me or anyone else) is something I don't trust.Lan-"for those who don't like evil characters, what does it say that out of over 1300 characters played over 35 years our record for longest career is held by an Assassin"-efan</blockquote>

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