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<blockquote data-quote="WanderingMystic" data-source="post: 9436255" data-attributes="member: 69157">So in my opinion the problem stems from having the bulk of your play testing done with people who know what the rules are supposed to mean. I have seen this same problem in other companies and other products. They know exactly how the hide rules are intended to work so when they read the rules as written they go well obviously they work like this because I was told beforehand that that is how they work. This leads people to having blinders on where they just can't see how to people on the outside things might be confusing.&nbsp;It also seams to stem from them writing the PHB and DMG as one book, moving most of not all of the rules crunch into the DMG to make room for the class and character options in the PHB. Some of my favorite smaller companies open the books up for digital backers for a month before being sent off to the printers that way they have thousands of eyes caring minor spelling mistakes but mainly rule confusions.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="WanderingMystic, post: 9436255, member: 69157"] So in my opinion the problem stems from having the bulk of your play testing done with people who know what the rules are supposed to mean. I have seen this same problem in other companies and other products. They know exactly how the hide rules are intended to work so when they read the rules as written they go well obviously they work like this because I was told beforehand that that is how they work. This leads people to having blinders on where they just can't see how to people on the outside things might be confusing. It also seams to stem from them writing the PHB and DMG as one book, moving most of not all of the rules crunch into the DMG to make room for the class and character options in the PHB. Some of my favorite smaller companies open the books up for digital backers for a month before being sent off to the printers that way they have thousands of eyes caring minor spelling mistakes but mainly rule confusions. [/QUOTE]

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