Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 3754901" data-attributes="member: 4937">Happens to the best of us.  Ask MaRo about my first post to the WotC boards.  It was I think an unfortunate metaphor, in this case mostly I was seeing what sort of trouble would be stirred up if I took the metaphor in the worst light possible.  I wasn't actually insulted or I would have been doing more than lurking on this thread while the storm blew through.I am concerned that the WotC feels the need to take the game is not one I'll find helpful.  It's a pretty cloud, but its not my cloud.  Someone may like it, but its not me.  I am also concerned that with revolutionary changes to the system are going to come large balance issues that will rear thier head six months or a year after publication and prompt sufficient errata that we'll end up seeing what is effectively 4.5 within two years of publication.  Frankly, I don't see how you can avoid that given how close you are to going to the printer.  It might be a pretty cloud, but it is a storm cloud and it will damage something.  This isn't mere polishing you are doing.I'm equally certain that nothing I will tell you is going to change anything.  Certain decisions are already firm, and are motivated by high level business decisions which really are out of my hands and probably yours.If it makes you feel any better, you should be less concerned about all the negativity at this stage than all the optimism.  Since the fan base doesn't really know anything substantial, the appropriate responce is fear and anxiety.  Like any rabid fan base, they think they have an near equal ownership in your property and you are threatening it.  But the pessimists you can win over because just about anything is better than the unknown.  If your work is good, they will come around.  It's the optimists that better worry you, because right now they are writing on the blank slate of 4E all thier (conflicting) hopes and dreams and when the thing actually gets here and it isn't exactly what they hoped for they are going to be the ones you really lose.</blockquote>

Verification