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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 6346920" data-attributes="member: 18">I'm afraid not, Mistwell. It merely means I might represent a very different constituency to this majority you perceive. One that is less common on ENWorld, but more common elsewhere. Or not. But your argument rests on the assumption that ENWorld is tightly representative of the RPG industry as a whole, or D&D players as a whole, and I don't think anyone believes that -  [MENTION=1]Morrus[/MENTION], I certainly doubt does.Also, re: polling, I'm afraid that's not simply true, from an objective/fact-based perspective. I'm all over the place! Sometimes wild minority, sometimes supermajority. I can prove this by pointing to specific polls, if you want.(Recent examples of opinions on both ends of the spectrum - Like most people I thought that the Hermit background was awesome - very unlike most people I worry that backgrounds will be used as a lazy space-filler in 5E)  [MENTION=93321]Psikerlord#[/MENTION] - Precisely! <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=":)" /> We disagree on most things, but neither of us knows if we're an outlier, and nor does Mistwell. We can only speak for our own experiences and beliefs.  [MENTION=2525]Mistwell[/MENTION] - If you like I can add an "Everything in this post is IMO and IME." to my sig. - would that help? I mean, one assumes that, normally, but... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />I mean, let's be real, it's quite possible, what with this being the internet that I am a complicated chatbot, or that the people I play D&D with exist only in my head, or are robots living on the dark side of the moon or whatever, but you don't have any basis for asserting I'm outlier beyond ENWorld, and even then, I think it's less consistent than you think, given the PMs and upvote comments I get.One thing is that we're what, ten years different in age (entirely a guess - I'm 36) and I'm from a upper-middle-class (as 2E AD&D would put it!), vaguely academic/artsy-fartsy London (UK) background, and I presume you're from a very different one. Many people on this board are 10-15 years older than me and Americans, so some significant cultural differences are to be expected! Most of the gamers I personally know are of an age with me (within five years either way), wealthier than average, professionals in big cities (either London, NY, Boston or LA in most cases). I doubt that's typical.</blockquote>

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