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      Those who want to and can run RPGs tend be of above average intelligence, but tend not to be as interested in the real world. Kids who showed a bunch of promise, but often have barriers to translating that promise into mainstream definitions of success.

      Or that’s been my experience in life and with other lifelong rpg enthusiasts, and my understanding of the comment.

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        Or alternatively, very interested in the real world and want to tell stories with other weirdos about the themes that they find compelling.

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          When my brother’s grade 9 teacher told our mum that he just wasn’t very good at research, she was like, “uhh, he just spent 3 weeks doing research on the wild West to run a game of deadlands for a bunch of people in their twenties and thirties, I don’t think research is the problem”