In Chess, and in many games, there is a first move advantage, where the player who goes first is more likely to win. Some games, like Price is Right, have a last move advantage. Wh...

The useful part

Most RPGs are single player or cooperative, so competition isn't really a thing. Competitive RPG games tend to be MMOGs, in which case the player's capacity for burst damage tends to matter more than anything else (and everything tends to run in real time in MMOGs, not a lot of turn-based MMOs). especially in a format like Magic's Commander, where the normal number of players per match is four instead of two.

How it works

• In the Commander situation, the first player advantage is notably less important than the last player disadvantage, which is statistically significant.

Details worth keeping

Competitive turn-based games generally try to reduce first turn advantage as much as possible (Collectible Card Games tend to be one of the biggest in this space), but it can still become a statistically significant issue over a very large numbers of games.