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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 9254813" data-attributes="member: 2525">No the primary source IS the lead designer. It's him who set up the playtests, him who is running the playtests, him who is managing the playtest feedback employees, and him whose motive would most be in question if the entire purpose of the playtest is to avoid criticism. Hasbro has not, has never, and no source has ever even vaguely implied anyone else orders a playtest be done.I say you are alleging Jeremy Crawford is lying because there is no available alternative you or anyone else has named. Because what he has said directly contradicts what you claim to be his motive. So either he is lying or you are wrong, even if you want to claim you're not calling him a liar. The only other alternative is you have some knowledge of some other unknown figure behind the scenes in control, which you have failed to mention all these years, and which nobody has ever quoted as saying or implying they ordered a playtest or control it.There is no unnamed corporate suit behind the playtest. Crawford has repeatedly said he's the man who is in charge of that. They didn't have to run this as a playtest at all, I doubt Hasbro executives even know what a playtest means given that's not their primary business or even secondary business. Crawford is the guy doing it and saying it. It used to be Mearls and Crawford jointly back in 2014, and Mearls even said at the time it was their idea to run a playtest and it's still the same systems in place. If you think there is some other nefarious figure behind the scenes who ordered the playtest, name them and show any scintilla of evidence that's their motive.</blockquote>

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