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<blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 7735994" data-attributes="member: 2525">You realize, by calling a massively large set of data &quot;sketchy&quot; and refuting it with a massively smaller set of data (8 groups total), you've made a complete farce of what is and isn't considered &quot;sketchy&quot; right? I mean, you have to seen some irony in that, I hope? I know some groups who have only played with Basic rules. Since their personal experience is only with Basic rules, does that mean they should conclude your data is &quot;sketchy&quot; because their personal experience differs?Also, why do you assume you have a bead on &quot;people who drive the market&quot;, and why would you think your personal knowledge (from 8 groups) about market drivers in this industry is superior to the guy who RUNS THE COMPANY THAT DOMINATES THAT INDUSTRY?Man, the sheer chutzpah of D&amp;D fans sometimes...I certainly understand questioning these sorts of things. But using language which assumes you know more than industry experts just because you're a fan, I just don't get it. It's surely not unique to this fandom though. This sort of thing is much worse on sports message boards where everyone is a smarter coach, general manager, scout and owner than sports coaches, general managers, scouts and owners <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mistwell, post: 7735994, member: 2525"] You realize, by calling a massively large set of data "sketchy" and refuting it with a massively smaller set of data (8 groups total), you've made a complete farce of what is and isn't considered "sketchy" right? I mean, you have to seen some irony in that, I hope? I know some groups who have only played with Basic rules. Since their personal experience is only with Basic rules, does that mean they should conclude your data is "sketchy" because their personal experience differs? Also, why do you assume you have a bead on "people who drive the market", and why would you think your personal knowledge (from 8 groups) about market drivers in this industry is superior to the guy who RUNS THE COMPANY THAT DOMINATES THAT INDUSTRY? Man, the sheer chutzpah of D&D fans sometimes...I certainly understand questioning these sorts of things. But using language which assumes you know more than industry experts just because you're a fan, I just don't get it. It's surely not unique to this fandom though. This sort of thing is much worse on sports message boards where everyone is a smarter coach, general manager, scout and owner than sports coaches, general managers, scouts and owners :) [/QUOTE]

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