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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Majoru Oakheart" data-source="post: 6282155" data-attributes="member: 5143">Honestly, I think it depends on what's in the Starter Set.If they plan on launching a new Living campaign in the vein of Living Greyhawk or Living Forgotten Realms at Gen Con(which all signs currently point to yes, there are a number of 4 hour adventures being run without names or information given.  They've already hired a bunch of people to be the new administrators of a new D&D Next Living campaign, and traditionally there has always been a Living Campaign being run at Gen Con), then people are going to be creating characters that are set in stone for the next who knows how many years.I know it would be frustrating to many players to show up to the premiere of the new Living Campaign only to have your choice of race/class/spells/feats/other things somehow limited because not all the options are available in the Starter Set.  After all, when you play adventures in a Living Campaign you get XP and gold permanently for that character.  Spending time and effort getting XP and gold for a character you create and then having the PHB show up a month or two later with new options that you'd much rather have would be annoying.  You now have the choice of giving up the XP and gold you got at Gen Con to start a new character or make due with a character you don't really want to play for the coming years.I know the people in charge at the RPGA/Organized Play.  They'd want to avoid this at all costs.Which isn't to say that if the R&D department simply isn't done and gives them no choice that there aren't options they can take.  They'd likely give a one time rebuild of everyone's characters when the PHB came out if they had to.  But this kind of thing is kind of a last option.  I don't think they would have planned the launch of the new campaign at all if they didn't have it on good authority that either the PHB will be out for Gen Con...or the Starter Set will have more than enough information to play effectively.</blockquote>

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