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<blockquote data-quote="Rellott" data-source="post: 7776374" data-attributes="member: 6809701"><p>I haven’t bought the book yet - as I mentioned, I was basing that on the multiple reviews (like the one by ChaosOS a few posts above this post and below your post). I’m hesitant to drop that much money on a book with that many worrying reviews. </p><p>As a semi-side note, I almost never notice poor design that is too weak. Honestly I’d be fine with stuff that’s a little weaker than official material if it also came with amazing flavor. But that’s rarely the case with 3PP, and most designers that I see coming from 3.5/PF skew toward the “too powerful/too complex” end of things. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The authors for Wayfinders Guide are listed as...</p><p>Lead Designer: Keith Baker</p><p>Design: Ruty Rutenberg</p><p>Additional Design: Jeremy Crawford, Mike Mearls, Kate Welch</p><p></p><p>And it does have playtesters mentioned, and I know they have pushed most of it through UA, but I still feel like the races came in from their original designer (who might have been Rudy rather than Keith Baker) a bit over the top on power, and scaling power down is a lot harder to do without rewriting things. I haven’t seen any major reworking of the races since the initial publication of the book. I’ll grant that they’re not brokenly OP, but they’re definitely toward the top of the racial power curve IMO. They feel like power creep.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rellott, post: 7776374, member: 6809701"] I haven’t bought the book yet - as I mentioned, I was basing that on the multiple reviews (like the one by ChaosOS a few posts above this post and below your post). I’m hesitant to drop that much money on a book with that many worrying reviews. As a semi-side note, I almost never notice poor design that is too weak. Honestly I’d be fine with stuff that’s a little weaker than official material if it also came with amazing flavor. But that’s rarely the case with 3PP, and most designers that I see coming from 3.5/PF skew toward the “too powerful/too complex” end of things. The authors for Wayfinders Guide are listed as... Lead Designer: Keith Baker Design: Ruty Rutenberg Additional Design: Jeremy Crawford, Mike Mearls, Kate Welch And it does have playtesters mentioned, and I know they have pushed most of it through UA, but I still feel like the races came in from their original designer (who might have been Rudy rather than Keith Baker) a bit over the top on power, and scaling power down is a lot harder to do without rewriting things. I haven’t seen any major reworking of the races since the initial publication of the book. I’ll grant that they’re not brokenly OP, but they’re definitely toward the top of the racial power curve IMO. They feel like power creep. [/QUOTE]
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