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Message: <blockquote data-quote="El Mahdi" data-source="post: 6034971" data-attributes="member: 59506">I understand your methodology. Unfortunately though, not everyone see's RPG's in such a rigid, black & white manner. There are a lot of RPG's, and even a lot of different flavors of D&D, and many gamers enjoy different games and flavors at different times. When I have a buffet to choose from, I lean different directions at different times, as most people probably do to one extent or another... The results of this poll are essentially useless for any real impression of gamers as a whole. Ignoring the fact that it's self-identifying and self-limiting just because it's here at ENWorld (it's an entertaining toy at best), the choices you made available limited the responses to only a subset of gamers: gamers that have one clear-cut preference. I'd posit that this subset of gamers hardly represents a majority of gamers, or even a diverse cross-section of gamers. You haven't "seen" anything as concerns gamers in general. All you're seeing is the preferences of those that have one preferred flavor only. If you had asked "How do you as a gamer prefer to view a 1st level character?", rather than "What is a 1st level character?", you might have had a chance of gathering some worthwhile information. But even then, you're not getting a sense of a majority of gamers.  You're only getting a sense of the predominant group of gamers that frequent and post at ENWorld, which is a self-selecting group of gamers that are far less casual than the average gamer, and skew heavily towards DM's.<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=":)" /></blockquote>

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