Considering only pregens will be available and rules for advancing them will come out in chunks I don't see what kind of campaign anyone is going to start with this.
IMHO not being able to create characters will lead to a lot of rules reading but very little actual play which kind of defeats the purpose of a PLAY test.
Considering only pregens will be available and rules for advancing them will come out in chunks I don't see what kind of campaign anyone is going to start with this.
IMHO not being able to create characters will lead to a lot of rules reading but very little actual play which kind of defeats the purpose of a PLAY test.
Creating characters is not playing the game, it's a preparation. Playing the game is playing the game.
While character creation is an important factor of D&D, allowing it in the playtest might have way too many variables when all you want to see is whether or not people like the way the game flows and feels.
I do agree that it's not really enough to run a whole campaign off of, but I doubt that's their intention.