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<blockquote data-quote="Kalidrev" data-source="post: 5098560" data-attributes="member: 84005"><p>I agree with Velmont completely. The Assassin was never playtest material, will NEVER see publication in hardback form (it is DnDi ONLY), and will get regular updates through DnDi. The Hybrid options, and all other PHB3 material will be published in their most recent form in hardback, which means that there may even be changes between the hardback form and what is in DnDi CB. Because of this, it really is best to just wait until the playtest material is released. I treat playtestmaterial the same way that beta software should be treated: an awesome little peak at what may be to come, but not official. It's there so that players can mess with it, look at it, play around with it, and submit "bugs" to WOTC. After WOTC has had a sufficient amount of playtesters "debug" their playtest material, they look the material over again and then publish it in hardback form, after which they update DnDi CB with what is in the hardback form.</p><p></p><p>Now granted, in this SPECIFIC case, the current revision of Hybrid rules HAS been released for DnDi subscribers in the same form that will be released in the PHB3, HOWEVER, if you remember, there were also 2 other versions of the Hybrid rules as playtest/"debut" material. The same has happened to the Artificer, the Barbarian, and the Monk. They all were included as playtest material, and then had some pretty significant changes before they were released. </p><p></p><p>I would hate to see people use some playtest material, like it, then get the giant nerf bat when it is released as hardback. What's worse, is that there won't even be an errata listing for it, showing the changes, so we would have to figure all of this out ourselves. Better to just create the character using the official material in the first place.</p><p></p><p>I'm leaning very heavily towards a no vote on this one, but I'll give you the chance to persuade me otherwise.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kalidrev, post: 5098560, member: 84005"] I agree with Velmont completely. The Assassin was never playtest material, will NEVER see publication in hardback form (it is DnDi ONLY), and will get regular updates through DnDi. The Hybrid options, and all other PHB3 material will be published in their most recent form in hardback, which means that there may even be changes between the hardback form and what is in DnDi CB. Because of this, it really is best to just wait until the playtest material is released. I treat playtestmaterial the same way that beta software should be treated: an awesome little peak at what may be to come, but not official. It's there so that players can mess with it, look at it, play around with it, and submit "bugs" to WOTC. After WOTC has had a sufficient amount of playtesters "debug" their playtest material, they look the material over again and then publish it in hardback form, after which they update DnDi CB with what is in the hardback form. Now granted, in this SPECIFIC case, the current revision of Hybrid rules HAS been released for DnDi subscribers in the same form that will be released in the PHB3, HOWEVER, if you remember, there were also 2 other versions of the Hybrid rules as playtest/"debut" material. The same has happened to the Artificer, the Barbarian, and the Monk. They all were included as playtest material, and then had some pretty significant changes before they were released. I would hate to see people use some playtest material, like it, then get the giant nerf bat when it is released as hardback. What's worse, is that there won't even be an errata listing for it, showing the changes, so we would have to figure all of this out ourselves. Better to just create the character using the official material in the first place. I'm leaning very heavily towards a no vote on this one, but I'll give you the chance to persuade me otherwise. [/QUOTE]
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