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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jdvn1" data-source="post: 3483844" data-attributes="member: 26424">I'm sure you've seen industry professionals come here and post in non-official manners. I know I have.I agree with you that a lot of the vitriol recently was too much (though the loss of the magazines are significant), and most if not all of posts by industry professionals around this time are going to be in an official manner, discussing what's going on. I also agree with you that we are very informal.But, I think for their online presence to be significant, they need to be able to post in a non-official manner too. That means dealing with the sorts of varieties that gamers come in. Sure, we have to be civil as always, but why can't they be open-minded enough to unofficially discuss the problems with the d20 system? That is, rather that talk about the rules of the game, talk about how something was worded poorly, or that a combination of particular rules has unexpected side effects and listen to other people's ideas on how to handle the situation? I've never seen them discuss the merits of negative (but potentially constructive) feedback.Sure, they have big names, but they're normal people. Maybe some people will take what they say too far or out of context, "Mike Mearls said the Tumble skill sucks!" or some such silliness, but that's going to happen on the internet anyway.Do you think when they talk about rules amongst themselves, they're always straight-faced? Why not have gamer-to-gamer conversations with us?</blockquote>

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