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<blockquote data-quote="jgsugden" data-source="post: 7884057" data-attributes="member: 2629">They tried to check for such things. They may have dismissed characters that are being played, and they may be including a lot of lower level characters where functionalities are being tested out, but PCs are not played.It also makes sense that a lot of the campaigns that began before D&amp;D beyond was used may never have been migrated onto the system. If you're used to pen and paper, moving over a laundry list of items, notes, etc... may not be worthwhile for some folks. Those same players may also have D&amp;D beyond characters for other campaigns of lower levels.Also, I'm not clear on some of their determinations... if a PC is played in a one shot and then goes dormant (never to be played again, but still in the system), how long before they stop counting it in their polls?All in all - we can be pretty sure that most D&amp;D characters being played are low level. However, we should not be so sure that the 'almost no high level' metrics can be trusted to be accurate numbers, or that all of the PCs they report as active are actually active. Personally, given the Sage Advice questions on high level abilities that seem to be more practical than academic, I'd say there are a decent number of folks playing higher level games. I just don't trust this data to be accurate for detailed analysis.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="jgsugden, post: 7884057, member: 2629"] They [I]tried[/I] to check for such things. They may have dismissed characters that are being played, and they may be including a lot of lower level characters where functionalities are being tested out, but PCs are not played. It also makes sense that a lot of the campaigns that began before D&D beyond was used may never have been migrated onto the system. If you're used to pen and paper, moving over a laundry list of items, notes, etc... may not be worthwhile for some folks. Those same players may also have D&D beyond characters for other campaigns of lower levels. Also, I'm not clear on some of their determinations... if a PC is played in a one shot and then goes dormant (never to be played again, but still in the system), how long before they stop counting it in their polls? All in all - we can be pretty sure that most D&D characters being played are low level. However, we should not be so sure that the 'almost no high level' metrics can be trusted to be accurate numbers, or that all of the PCs they report as active are actually active. Personally, given the Sage Advice questions on high level abilities that seem to be more practical than academic, I'd say there are a decent number of folks playing higher level games. I just don't trust this data to be accurate for detailed analysis. [/QUOTE]

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