Olgar Shiverstone
Legend
Neither.
The jury will stay out until the game is released and evaluated.
The jury will stay out until the game is released and evaluated.
This could all be because playtest is at such an early stage that they haven't even thought about how to introduce the layers of customization they are speaking of, maybe they are just testing some math elements, I don't know. My opinions may change. My current state is just disappointed.
Then why in the heck are you wasting energy worrying about it? If you know that this is an early stage in the process, and you suspect the customization you might like isn't arriving until later... why give ANY emotional energy to the process at all? What's the point? You're intentionally banging your head against a wall, then getting upset you have a headache.
If you can't help but getting emotionally wrapped up in all of this... why don't you just do yourself a favor and not follow along? Just play 4E for another year and a half in ignorant bliss... and then when 5E is released you can worry then whether the game is what you want it to be.
Given that the people trying it all seem to be bound by NDA, I'm not really believing the whole idea that they're doing things differently this time. Paizo openly made the evolving rules available for view at different points during the development process.
WotC still doesn't seem to be doing this, so I frankly don't believe them that they've learned their lesson.
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Calling players like us "other company's customers" is rather disingeneous. WotC came out with an edition many of us didn't like, and we voted with our wallets. Why should we feel that, to be D&D fans we have to buy an edition of the game that we don't like? We're still D&D fans. That hasn't changed. I think that WotC has realized something went wrong with their last edition, and they're trying to fix it.
Banshee
They are playtesting a 100% brand new system, not a tweaked version of a 5 year old pre-existing ruleset (. . .)