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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gyor" data-source="post: 6170310" data-attributes="member: 6670153">I think your right, the whole tone  changed, I think he was given some kind of deadline, plus the surveys probably really are mostly positive. So he's got to speed up and now that he's got the thumbs up from the general public on the direction of the playtest, he can focus on data gained from internal playtesting which is faster and more controlled, which is more ideal for stuff like fixing the math, touching stuff up, and finishing things up. Between internal playtesting, external playtesting, surveys, blogs, forums, tweets, polls, the 4e character builder and so on they literially have tons and tons of data. And even if the Sepetember packet is the last packet, that doesn't mean that they can't put out polls and surveys on any additional questions they have.  I do also agree about the 2014 gencon date, but I'll add that they'll want the new FR setting materials to come out soon after that, so they need the rules done soon enough that the FR team can get to work building the campaign setting guide and a 5e fr player's guide, especially since they'll need it, because the Sundering will be over by April 2014 and Authors will need a guide to this new verison of FR. I'll add that this is ifonic as this is the point were they start taking public feedback on 5e FR, they even have an app of sorts for it. We'll hopefully have a better idea about that after the seminiar this Saturday at Gencon (hopefully people will tweet and or record it for those of us who can not attend).</blockquote>

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