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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 5870163" data-attributes="member: 7006">Or the other possibility is that they've gathered enough data on the subject up to this point to fairly accurately come to a reasonable idea, and the results of the poll end up confirming what they've already theorized.I mean come on... is there anyone here who will actually cop to voting on a poll answer that matched what Mearls' suggested was what their data pointed to... not because it was what they actually felt, but because it's what the poll suggested they vote for?  Anyone really want to admit to being a mindless sheep?Now of course, what will happen is that people will come on and say "No, no... *I* voted the way I actually felt... but it's the other people who are the mindless sheep and voted exactly in the way WotC wanted them to, thus self-fulfilling the prophecy."  Basically throw all the other players under the bus rather than just admit that perhaps WotC's data might not be so far off in reality after all based on the middle-ground of players in the game.Cause that just makes each player have to admit to themselves that whatever screwy way they play the game probably isn't even CLOSE to what most other people do.  And that in the end... WotC won't be able to cater D&DN specifically TO THEM.  Their special-snowflake way of playing won't be the default game being made.  Hard to admit that to yourself, I know... but is what everyone is going to have to do in the end.</blockquote>

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