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<blockquote data-quote="Iosue" data-source="post: 6521828" data-attributes="member: 6680772"><p>I've reread the first four so far, and it certainly is interesting how much of the overall philosophy of the game shows up in these 2011 articles. Despite Mearls ostensibly just spitballing while looking at the game's history; no new edition to see here, nope!</p><p></p><p>I should note, though, that I'm not planning on going through all the articles done during the playtest. I'm thinking of just doing the 2011 articles, possibly the early 2012 articles before the playtest began. I'm most interested in what they were thinking and planning before they hit the wild and wooly playtest. Also, IMO the 2011 articles are mostly excellent, with a good length for looking at the issues. After Monte Cook took over, they tended to be not so good -- short and shallow. Even then Mearls took over again, he was apparently too busy to give them much attention. A lot of them just feel like placeholders, rehashes of earlier articles jotted down just to put something up for that week. That said, even as I write this, I'm looking at the archive and seeing a few 2012 articles that look interesting. If I can get through 2011 (like I said, my track record is poor!), maybe I'll go through some selected articles from 2012-2013.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Iosue, post: 6521828, member: 6680772"] I've reread the first four so far, and it certainly is interesting how much of the overall philosophy of the game shows up in these 2011 articles. Despite Mearls ostensibly just spitballing while looking at the game's history; no new edition to see here, nope! I should note, though, that I'm not planning on going through all the articles done during the playtest. I'm thinking of just doing the 2011 articles, possibly the early 2012 articles before the playtest began. I'm most interested in what they were thinking and planning before they hit the wild and wooly playtest. Also, IMO the 2011 articles are mostly excellent, with a good length for looking at the issues. After Monte Cook took over, they tended to be not so good -- short and shallow. Even then Mearls took over again, he was apparently too busy to give them much attention. A lot of them just feel like placeholders, rehashes of earlier articles jotted down just to put something up for that week. That said, even as I write this, I'm looking at the archive and seeing a few 2012 articles that look interesting. If I can get through 2011 (like I said, my track record is poor!), maybe I'll go through some selected articles from 2012-2013. [/QUOTE]
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