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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 8560785" data-attributes="member: 7006">Another possibility is that more often than not the UAs are written for opinions on their stylistic intention and desirability-- how much do we like the ideas they are presenting to us as possible additions-- not so much on their mechanical implementation.  They know what their mechanical frameworks are, and they have their own private alpha tester groups to really hammer away at and tighten up the mechanics they eventually go with.  They never have used us in the public playtests to "check their math" as it were (and in fact have said several times over the years that they purposefully don't want us to bother worrying about game balance in these UAs because when we get them they aren't even thinking about balance yet.)So with the last several months having been preparations for re-writing the monster statblock formats with little "new creative ideas" being added... they probably haven't needed us to give our opinions via UA.  Instead, they've put out the surveys instead, which were for us to give our feelings on projects that are much further on down the pipeline.  But we'll probably start seeing UAs about those things later on in 2022 and into 2023 as the revisions really start taking shape.</blockquote>