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[3.5] Threat ranges no longer stack!
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<blockquote data-quote="Corinth" data-source="post: 970153" data-attributes="member: 497"><p>This is folly. A competant game designer always recruits the very best powergamers that he can find as playtesters. Why? For the very fact that such gamers shall, without fail, find every last rules exploit and abuse it without mercy. All that the designer needs to do is insist on a rigorous documentation of every game-breaking exploit that the powergaming playtesters find, and then he has all that he needs for him to fix the rules by removing what the playtesters find.</p><p></p><p>This works because this is what I do for Scott Lynch's <em>Deeds Not Words</em> d20 superhero game; two of the four playtesters are the worst powergamers that I know, and I recruited them for this reason and this purposes. In six months we already found enough exploits to merit a minor revision.</p><p></p><p>It's all about the stress-testing to destruction. By letting them break the game, you end up with a better game to play all around. Casual gamers won't do this.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Corinth, post: 970153, member: 497"] This is folly. A competant game designer always recruits the very best powergamers that he can find as playtesters. Why? For the very fact that such gamers shall, without fail, find every last rules exploit and abuse it without mercy. All that the designer needs to do is insist on a rigorous documentation of every game-breaking exploit that the powergaming playtesters find, and then he has all that he needs for him to fix the rules by removing what the playtesters find. This works because this is what I do for Scott Lynch's [i]Deeds Not Words[/i] d20 superhero game; two of the four playtesters are the worst powergamers that I know, and I recruited them for this reason and this purposes. In six months we already found enough exploits to merit a minor revision. It's all about the stress-testing to destruction. By letting them break the game, you end up with a better game to play all around. Casual gamers won't do this. [/QUOTE]
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