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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GM Dave" data-source="post: 5913017" data-attributes="member: 6687992">In the May 16th discussion, they also made know that they would like to make an option without at-wills.It was just their design playtest seemed to favour having some at-wills in greater demand then no at-wills.This is reminiscent of the Gnome race question.  If 5% of your supporters play Gnomes can you discard including Gnomes in your game?If your support is 100 people then you've lost 5 people.  If your support is 100,000 people then you've lost 5,000 people at potentially 25/person or 125,000 dollars in sales.  That is enough to make it potentially worth adding a few extra lines to a book to satisfy that group.When it comes to the question of a non-at-will caster there are likely to be at least 5% if not more that would want that as an option.It is also something that a head market sales person will look at and point to as being a way to avoid initial rejection of the project for a low investment of time and cost.  This is something you should aim for when you are hoping to avoid problems through playtesting.You might even have the 'problem' solved for you by the playtesting as I bet their will be at least a dozen people that will go on boards discussing 'fixes' that will provide an alternative if the system can 'easily' allow that.</blockquote>