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<blockquote data-quote="covaithe" data-source="post: 4686682" data-attributes="member: 46559"><p>Only vague philosophical yammerings here. If you're looking for votes, move on; I've not yet actually read the thing all the way yet. </p><p></p><p>As for why we're doing all this fussing about balance, and not just giving WotC the benefit of the doubt for their printed sources, I'd cite three reasons. </p><p></p><p>First, WotC sometimes gets things wrong. Hence, errata, and warts like 3.5 psionics, polymorph, etc. The 3 month waiting period and approval process gives WotC time to find and correct some of the errors, and it gives us a fighting chance to do something about issues the community has identified but WotC hasn't addressed. Essentially, it's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowd_source" target="_blank">crowdsourcing</a>. </p><p></p><p>Second, we have some unique balance requirements that WotC... always doesn't seem to consider. Among other things, we care a lot more about power creep than they do. It <em>matters</em> to us if a character created at the start is significantly less powerful than a character created with PHB2 and Martial Power and FRPG and AV, even though the latter character is lower level. </p><p></p><p>Third, it's likely that at some point in L4W's lifetime, people will propose 3rd party or homebrew content. Going through this approval process for WotC material gives us some experience evaluating rules content for balance issues, so we're less likely to let in ridiculous homebrew stuff down the line.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="covaithe, post: 4686682, member: 46559"] Only vague philosophical yammerings here. If you're looking for votes, move on; I've not yet actually read the thing all the way yet. As for why we're doing all this fussing about balance, and not just giving WotC the benefit of the doubt for their printed sources, I'd cite three reasons. First, WotC sometimes gets things wrong. Hence, errata, and warts like 3.5 psionics, polymorph, etc. The 3 month waiting period and approval process gives WotC time to find and correct some of the errors, and it gives us a fighting chance to do something about issues the community has identified but WotC hasn't addressed. Essentially, it's [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowd_source"]crowdsourcing[/URL]. Second, we have some unique balance requirements that WotC... always doesn't seem to consider. Among other things, we care a lot more about power creep than they do. It [i]matters[/i] to us if a character created at the start is significantly less powerful than a character created with PHB2 and Martial Power and FRPG and AV, even though the latter character is lower level. Third, it's likely that at some point in L4W's lifetime, people will propose 3rd party or homebrew content. Going through this approval process for WotC material gives us some experience evaluating rules content for balance issues, so we're less likely to let in ridiculous homebrew stuff down the line. [/QUOTE]
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