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Message: <blockquote data-quote="bert1001 fka bert1000" data-source="post: 9104270" data-attributes="member: 7029588">I haven't done more than look through a few of the current surveys so maybe it's gotten better, but I don't have a lot of confidence in prior surveys and how they are used/presented.It's like the Fighter / Mythic Martial issue.  Surveys say Fighters are the most played class now so there's no issues!Of course, it could be lots of things going on:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">games are played primarily at low level and so the Fighter is fine (not even getting into the issue that perhaps most games are lower level partly because of the magic / martial imbalance at high levels)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">people realize the fighter is not fine but people love the martial concept so much they are willing to hold their nose and play it anyway</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">the fighter is fine at many tables because of house rules/table conventions despite design being underwhelming</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">the majority of players are causal players and play fighters because they want a martial hero fantasy.    if there was an alternative mythic martial class they might not have any issues playing that one over the fighter</li> </ul>etcI don't often see this kind of nuisance in the surveys trying to test likely hypothesis of why certain things might be.</blockquote>