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<blockquote data-quote="Jester David" data-source="post: 6046306" data-attributes="member: 37579">I totally agree. Of course, they haven't been very frank about the delays. The second playtest package was pretty late and the 3rd was released as late into the promise month as they could manage yet they haven't come out and said they're behind schedule. I get the impression WotC (by which I mean the D&amp;D team) is trying very hard to be open and honest but we still get a heck of a lot of silence. But here's the catch: it won't be perfect. There will be mistakes. There will be typos and poorly written rules and designs they could have done better. They could spend eight years tweaking and adjusting and redesigning the classes and still find things that aren't just right. Eventually you just have to stop making changes and start working on everything else. Continual changes hurt 4e. They were thinking of new designs all the way until the last second. They came up with certain mechanics so late that they did not have time to go back and add them all to all the monsters in the MM and only monsters from that point on had the new mechanics (resistance &amp; vulnerabilities IIRC). Just like there are power differences between spells in the Red Box and the later Essentials books because they couldn't stop The best thing WotC could do is get the entire game written three months early and just stop tweaking for a month and play as if it were finished. Then think about what else needed to be done while they still have two months to make small changes and catch the must-fix problems.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jester David, post: 6046306, member: 37579"] I totally agree. Of course, they haven't been very frank about the delays. The second playtest package was pretty late and the 3rd was released as late into the promise month as they could manage yet they haven't come out and said they're behind schedule. I get the impression WotC (by which I mean the D&D team) is trying very hard to be open and honest but we still get a heck of a lot of silence. But here's the catch: it won't be perfect. There will be mistakes. There will be typos and poorly written rules and designs they could have done better. They could spend eight years tweaking and adjusting and redesigning the classes and still find things that aren't just right. Eventually you just have to stop making changes and start working on everything else. Continual changes hurt 4e. They were thinking of new designs all the way until the last second. They came up with certain mechanics so late that they did not have time to go back and add them all to all the monsters in the MM and only monsters from that point on had the new mechanics (resistance & vulnerabilities IIRC). Just like there are power differences between spells in the Red Box and the later Essentials books because they couldn't stop The best thing WotC could do is get the entire game written three months early and just stop tweaking for a month and play as if it were finished. Then think about what else needed to be done while they still have two months to make small changes and catch the must-fix problems. [/QUOTE]

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