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If you are, then you are not whom I refer to.

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Maybe if it's not in a real tabletop setting, people lose interest. We dont have miniatures to paint or armies to throw at each other. 
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I think you probably hit that one on the head. With how little you have to invest to get into an RP, it's pretty easy to just give it up partway through. You put down sixty bucks for a game, or you've spent an ungodly amount of money on a bunch of figures, so it's a great deal harder to simply walk away for no other reason than a spell of boredom.