PHB Development almost over

[Lonely Tylenol]

I have no time to blog, since we have to turn over the developed Player's Handbook on Friday, October 5. On Sunday, October 7, I get married to the greatest woman in the world. As some of you might imagine, this is a hectic time in my life.

When we make the turnover, I'll post here. Until then, I'm going to be quiet for a while.

There'll be playtest changes to enter and all that in the next phase, but the bulk of the work on the 4e Player's Handbook will be done.

So I take it this means that the PHB stuff like which races and classes are in, what the spells look like, etc. is set in stone as of October 5.

Also, congrats to Mike!

Edit: link

 

[Wormwood]

So I take it this means that the PHB stuff like which races and classes are in, what the spells look like, etc. is set in stone as of October 5.

Fantastic news!

 

[Davelozzi]

So I take it this means that the PHB stuff like which races and classes are in, what the spells look like, etc. is set in stone as of October 5.

Also, congrats to Mike!

Edit: link

I doubt that the PHB will be set in stone. After all, they are just starting the out-of-house playtesting, right?

I'll second the congrats to Mike though.

 

[Lonely Tylenol]

I doubt that the PHB will be set in stone. After all, they are just starting the out-of-house playtesting, right?

I suspect that the two are related in the opposite fashion. Once the PHB's content is finalized, they can send out that content to the out-of-house playtesters to check for errors, discrepancies, and broken rules. But the corrections made as a result of playtest data are not likely to dislodge substantive elements of the content of the book. Just the niggly details.

 

[Logan_Bonner]

But the corrections made as a result of playtest data are not likely to dislodge substantive elements of the content of the book. Just the niggly details.

We'll fix anything that needs to be fixed.

 

[Irda Ranger]

But the corrections made as a result of playtest data are not likely to dislodge substantive elements of the content of the book. Just the niggly details.

Unless a "substantive element" is seriously broken ...

We'll fix anything that needs to be fixed.

Good to hear. I hope you can follow through on that, and that you don't discover an "Oh crap!" two hours before going to the printers.

 

[Lonely Tylenol]

We'll fix anything that needs to be fixed.

Well, in saying the above, I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt. I hope that any seriously broken or disastrously non-functional mechanics wouldn't have passed internal playtesting. I am assuming, and I may be wrong, that external playtesting is aimed at smoothing out rough spots in play and finding unexpected synergies, not at determining that the wizard's spellcasting abilities are completely broken and need to be rebuilt from the ground up.

edit: Also, I'm not sure how the inclusion of, for example, a given set of races and classes would need to be "fixed".

 

[Moon-Lancer]

When will we get to know what races and classes will be in the phb?

 

[Li Shenron]

I doubt that the PHB will be set in stone. After all, they are just starting the out-of-house playtesting, right?

Well there is probably a few hundreds monsters that need massive playtesting as well

 

[BlackMoria]

I don't know about 'set in stone' as an analogy.

More like 'poured concrete that is starting to set'