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@jorge-freeman-1 You are making the (extremely common) mistake of assuming that you should be seeing “average” results regardless of sample size. In other words, if the average shows that the GPM gives a set item once in 6 tries, then you expect that you should get exactly 1 set item if you roll the GPM 6 times, or exactly 2 set items if you roll 12 times. This is a logical fallacy.
In order to have any confidence about statistical results, they must be computed over a large sample size – your 15 data points are nowhere near large enough. The averages I quoted are based on over 100 GPM rolls during RR, and even that isn’t enough to have complete statistical confidence.
Please accept the fact that your experience is neither unprecedented nor uncommon – both myself and @killerkea have stated that we’ve also experienced runs of 15 or more rolls without receiving a set item. In fact, this actually bodes well for your future at the GPM, due to the phenomenon of “regression toward the mean,” which means you’ll eventually see runs where, for example, you get 3 set items in only 5 rolls (something that has happened to me twice).