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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mark CMG" data-source="post: 5875339" data-attributes="member: 10479"><p>It's incumbent for WotC to seek out the sources it uses during design.  They can't expect everything to come their way, or to spend their money and time trying to influence designers that only avail themselves of limited opportunities.  No, I don't expect that any of the old guard designers are going to fly off to DDXP or PAX East to try and get their voices heard when it would be so much easier for WotC to simply send a few designers to Gary Con and meet with the lot of them over the course of a single weekend.  I have no doubt some of the non-designer attendees of Gary Con have gone to DDXP and PAX East, and also have sent in applications to join in the playtesting.  As to whether the designers of the original rules are even allowed to join in the playtest, given the Paizo folk seem to be barred from playtesting (not a surprising circumstance), I doubt many, if any, working game designers would be accepted as part of that process.  Many of those old guard designers are hard at work on their own projects.  Another reason why WotC getting on board with the licensing early would have benefits.</p></blockquote><p></p>