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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 545484" data-attributes="member: 177">Re: Part 1You want critique?  Okay....  There are three major problems with this section.The first is the personal anecdotal statement, "I have encountered so many...".  It has two flaws - first, it depends on your own authority for it's validity (it is your experience that matters).  But you've done absolutly nothing to support the assertion that you are an authority.  Secondly, anecdotal evidence, personal or otherwise, is a lousy support for a position.Market research from a fairly reasonable authority, WOTC, suggests the existance of a couple of million gamers.  That implies some hundreds of thousands of GMs.  You say you've seen "So many."  How many?  Is it a meaningful number out of those hundreds of thousands?  Probably not.  There are only very few people who can make believeable statements about large numbers of gamers and their tendencies.  You haven't established yourself as one of them, rendering your position very weak.The second problem is the thoroughly speculative nature of your conclusion: "Possibly...".  Yes, possibly it's for the reason you state, but possibly not.  Perhaps those GMs like to kill one PC a game because they simply like the tension created by high stakes and risks.  The fact that you can state a possibility doesn't make it a fact, and nothing else you say supports the speculation as truth.  Everything that follows that "possibly" is thus poorly supported.Third comes the insulting nature of your speculation.  You call it a "pathetic attempt".  If a random person of no known pedigree were to call you pathetic, would you be particularly disposed to take his words to heart, or would you be more likely to be hostile to his point of view?  Only rarely are insults a useful teaching tool.</blockquote>

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