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Has 5E Restored or Diminished Your Faith in WotC?
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<blockquote data-quote="Banshee16" data-source="post: 5806438" data-attributes="member: 7883"><p>I believe that part of the problem is when the game prototype demos are occuring primarily at a Con. For those of us who live across the continent (or on another continent), flying over to demo the game just isn't realistic.</p><p></p><p>With Paizo, it was easier to see what they were doing, because they kept releasing "snapshots"....not simply "we're bring prestige classes back", or "we're getting rid of elves" or whatever....but actual, functional sets of the rules as they stood at that moment of development, so that *everyone* who was interested could take a look and help them to identify problems....whether perceived or literal.</p><p></p><p>Instead, the prototypes are at conferences (so far), and everyone participating is bound by NDA, so all they can say is "trust us, it's great, it looks promising".......which, for some of us, just doesn't raise confidence.</p><p></p><p>To be fair, I think the paradigm has changed. Paizo did their thing in a very different environment than WotC when developing 3E, for instance. But I think the world has changed. And there appears to be enough bad blood on both sides of the edition divide that I'm not sure that being secretive about it will rally get them any points.</p><p></p><p>If my only chance at seeing the game, and what they're doing with it is to go to a conference, then likely I won't learn much until it's released. There's only one conference in my city in a year, it's a small one, and I don't think any official WotC staff actually attend. So I doubt there'll be a demo.</p><p></p><p>I'm *not* going to say one edition is better than the other. I will say I *prefer* one over the other. But the overall idea of this thread was to ask whether they've restored our faith with 5E.</p><p></p><p>To which all we can really say is "how"? They haven't given us much in the form of concrete facts. Aside from that select few, who are legally limited from telling us anyways.</p><p></p><p>Banshee</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Banshee16, post: 5806438, member: 7883"] I believe that part of the problem is when the game prototype demos are occuring primarily at a Con. For those of us who live across the continent (or on another continent), flying over to demo the game just isn't realistic. With Paizo, it was easier to see what they were doing, because they kept releasing "snapshots"....not simply "we're bring prestige classes back", or "we're getting rid of elves" or whatever....but actual, functional sets of the rules as they stood at that moment of development, so that *everyone* who was interested could take a look and help them to identify problems....whether perceived or literal. Instead, the prototypes are at conferences (so far), and everyone participating is bound by NDA, so all they can say is "trust us, it's great, it looks promising".......which, for some of us, just doesn't raise confidence. To be fair, I think the paradigm has changed. Paizo did their thing in a very different environment than WotC when developing 3E, for instance. But I think the world has changed. And there appears to be enough bad blood on both sides of the edition divide that I'm not sure that being secretive about it will rally get them any points. If my only chance at seeing the game, and what they're doing with it is to go to a conference, then likely I won't learn much until it's released. There's only one conference in my city in a year, it's a small one, and I don't think any official WotC staff actually attend. So I doubt there'll be a demo. I'm *not* going to say one edition is better than the other. I will say I *prefer* one over the other. But the overall idea of this thread was to ask whether they've restored our faith with 5E. To which all we can really say is "how"? They haven't given us much in the form of concrete facts. Aside from that select few, who are legally limited from telling us anyways. Banshee [/QUOTE]
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