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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Manbearcat" data-source="post: 6033346" data-attributes="member: 6696971">@<a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/members/fjw70.html" target="_blank">fjw70</a>Let me confirm that this is your suggestion.  We:A - All (disconnected) groups fill in their own "rulings" where the "rules" are absent or silent.B - All (disconnected) groups interpret opaque/nebulous rules (Boots of Elvenkind and the Listen/Move Silently contest on Stealth-adversarial (almost all of it) terrain) by way of their own (disconnected) intuition/reasoning/experience.C - All (disconnected) groups create (or use pre-existing from other systems or their own houserules) their own hazards, traps, and non-combat (Social and Exploration) conflict resolution mechanics and insert them into the playtest material.D - All (disconnected) groups add their own tactical depth and/or upgrades to monsters so they are less vanilla and underwhelming and more competitive and tactically interesting.E - Some (it most certainly won't be uniform) groups use the small (which is specific to each topic in the survey) narrative area to attempt to convey (with extreme brevity) to the developers each of their unique versions of A - D.I also want to confirm how you believe that these narrative portions of surveys (thousands and thousands of them) are parsed:1 - A single developer reads each of them word-for-word to maintain internal consistency and coherency within the devs understanding of the "voice of the people".2 - Multiple developers read each of them word-for-word.3 - A single intern reads each of them word-for-word and composes a second hand report to provide to the devs in an effort to hopefully represent the "voice  of the people". 4 - Multiple interns read a large sum of narratives and compose their own second hand briefs.5 - A keyword/data filter sniffs out specific words and phrases and collates numbers based on the aggregate sum of these keywords/phrases.6 - Some unknown percentage of the narratives get read by various people and the devs kinda/sorta round-table this to try to get a "feel" for the "voice of the people" and a large percentage of them get lost in the extreme workload/coffee breaks/blog reading/horsing around of the office.Is the top one correct and which of the bottom 6 do you consider most likely?  Take that equation and eyeball for me your odds that we then get a coherent product.</blockquote>

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