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Message: <blockquote data-quote="clearstream" data-source="post: 8068296" data-attributes="member: 71699">I think it is right that a qualifier for Level Up designer roles include having an active playtest group, but I didn't know for sure that was the case. So it is true that each Level Up designer does today have an active group and will test their rules in live play with that group?My motive for being really specific about this is that I find the quality of a ruleset can be hard to see on the surface, and relies on knowing that there has been robust playtesting. One of the things really noticeable in 5e is how - most of the time (!) - mechanics are robust. There are tweaks that it's not clear the reasons until after you have played the mechanic for some time. Their hit rate - mechanics that work as written - has been high. Failings are often more in the presentation of the mechanic, than in the mechanic itself. Room for misconstrual that is.</blockquote>