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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lonely Tylenol" data-source="post: 4065596" data-attributes="member: 18549">Some thoughts...1. I get the feeling that when you're a game designer, and you're essentially locked in a room with a bunch of other game designers for two years and told to create D&D all over again, you start to lose your grip on your ability to not sound like a complete cheese-ball.  I figure that when your only frame of reference for how to write your fluff text is the other fluff text you have scattered in piles around you, and a brain full of the fluff of the past 20 years, you might not be the best judge of how your prose might come across.  I know that if I were a curious potential new player, and I read the following: ...my first thought would be, "holy crap what kind of flaccid garbage is this?  It's like unexpectedly sparkly teenage poetry for the Lord of the Rings crowd.  Do they seriously expect me to recite bull like this while I'm playing it?"  Once again, the fluff hits the runway without lowering the landing gear.2. On religion: there is nothing on religion.  The religion section consists of "pick a god.  Here's some."  Where is the discussion of why I might want to follow a god as a rogue?  What sorts of attitudes do rogues have toward religion?  Are they often devout in a "throw the dice and see what the gods give me" sort of way, or are they generally a bunch of godless heathens who put more trust in their own daggers and lockpicks?  I think this got pretty short shrift, and could use some fleshing out, if only just for the sort of roleplaying hooks that they threw in for the "why you're a rogue" section above it.3. On rogue powers: hey, check it out.  The names don't suck.  Although the pun in "Artful Dodger" kind of grates on me.  But that's puns for you.  I also like the way that you pick whether you're going to be a thug or finesse rogue, and then get synergies with the powers you pick.  The last power listed is exactly the sort of thing I expected to see: it sets up enemies for sneak attacks.  I bet there's a lot of those.4. Weapon talent: neato.  Saves you having to take feats to be good at signature weapons.5. Dex to hit: also neato.</blockquote>

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