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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jack99" data-source="post: 5352737" data-attributes="member: 53135">Well, he has been in charge for a long time...Wishful thinking or simply your bias? Or maybe mine. Bill didn't seem annoyed or frustrated - just uncomfortable speaking in front of a large crowd.Yeah, quite annoying. Provide them with a mike next time.He definitely looks like a man tired of answering that question constantly. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> - if that is the question asked. Damn hard to hear much.So because they are meant to be an easier entry-point, they are worthless? Or what is your reason to cancel your orders?RB, or was it SS is talking specifically about the part where powers, feats etc get more fluff. So must BS be, since he has already stated that the physical size etc will depend on just how well the Essentials sell.He says they are happy with the first part of their plan, ie bringing old players over, but not too happy about the second part (We are not exactly where we wanted to be - I think he says) - which doesn't quite means that sales have been disappointing. CorrectIn other news..(all paraphrased)The DDI is a pretty big hit (You can see Bill nodding when SS looks at him for confirmation)Bill loves minis, but they are slowing down production (not stopping) to help retailers sell through one set before the next arrives - bc the minis as is do not sell as before (big shock!!!)They still claim that they are not doing any needless symmetry..DS books actually went all through Design before getting changed from the FR/Eberron format of DM-player-adventure books.The flow between Design, Development and Editing is much more fluid and the different parts communicate a lot more.They have also gone from 1-man designing his vision, to "work by committee". This speeds up the cycle of producing a product and weeds out the worst and most broken things.One of things they considered originally was playing up alignment, making it a third pillar of character creation (race-class-xxx) - themes from DS is a take on what the third pillar could have been.There are too many feats as it is right now, they will try to scale back things.The Monster Vault will have orcs, goblins, kobolds, trolls, ogres and dragons amongst others in it - it is there to provide the high fantasy iconic D&D feel to those who play it. Some of the monsters might be stolen directly from prior books, but most will be new versions of classic monsters.</blockquote>

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