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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 7881858" data-attributes="member: 29398">Yes, and as I have to keep pointing out every time this comes up, the primary example of that research - to wit, Dancey's marketing survey during the run-up to 3e - was rendered mostly bogus by its exclusion of a significantly large group of respondents in order to give them the results they wanted.Simply put, all responses from anyone who self-identified as being over a certain age (35) were thrown out.  The survey was done in 1999.What this exclusion did was effectively shut down the opinions and experiences of almost anyone who had been playing since the 1970s and a large proportion of those who started in the early 1980s* - i.e., the cohort that was the likeliest to have run (and at the time still be running) long campaigns.* - FWIW this included my entire gaming group/community at the time; many of us filled out the survey, ultimately to no point due to our all being a year or six too old.And so, starting with 3e the game was designed for short campaigns, short campaigns then became the norm as that's what the game was designed for, and the whole thing fed on itself.EDITED to confirm dates and info.</blockquote>