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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 9253742" data-attributes="member: 2525">I've heard this "running out of time" claim many times over the past year. The lead designer literally just said in the very video for this thread that they intend to still be playtesting in May. How are we running out of time, and why do people keep claiming they know the due date for this stuff? We don't even have a firm commitment that all three books will be out this year. All we really know is PHB 2024. There does appear to be time to playtest DMG and MM material.Yes, and I replied about the exploration segment that I agree. It's the spells section I disagreed about, and while there is some overlap between the two, not really. New players should start with the game as written and then see what they like and remove stuff they don't like after they have tried it out. That's working as intended. That seems like hyperbole backed by no evidence. The basic monster design is the same they're just adding more and varied abilities to those monsters it seems. The CR system will change but that has no real impact on PC design. I am not seeing the problem and I think you'd need to do a lot more to demonstrate it's a problem. It's not like we're starting from scratch here and suddenly monsters have no AC and use an entirely different basic mechanic for ordinary elements of combat.</blockquote>