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<blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 6505599" data-attributes="member: 2525">They are professionals.&nbsp; They do this all day, every day, and have for many many years.&nbsp; If <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outliers_%28book%29" target="_blank">the 10,000 hour rule</a> is real, they've achieved it (and the Paizo employees mostly came from there as well).&nbsp; They know other professionals in the industry.&nbsp; Many who work there, have worked there for a very long time.&nbsp; They have access to a great deal of information you do not have access to.&nbsp; If you are better at their job than they are, you should have gravitated to be working there long ago.&nbsp; The fact you didn't suggests you do not have their level of expertise in that field.&nbsp; You are of course free to comment and speculate and depend on your knack all you want...but of course the rest of us are free to view it however we choose, and I am choosing to view your comment as the thoughts of a person who does not know just how much he or she does not know, and who has never had to provide results in the field of RPG design and publishing.Further, even in a world where you did somehow know how to do the job of professional RPG designers and publishers better than the professionals having never done it yourself, how would we know that, and why would we take your word for it? We don't know you, as you say.&nbsp; Given the word of an actual professional in that field versus a stranger, wouldn't YOU take the word of the professional over the random stranger? I mean, if I tell you I know better than you, because I have experience and knack, would you simply nod and agree I must be right even if it goes against your instincts? If not...why do you think we'd react different to you when you do that?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mistwell, post: 6505599, member: 2525"] They are professionals. They do this all day, every day, and have for many many years. If [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outliers_%28book%29"]the 10,000 hour rule[/URL] is real, they've achieved it (and the Paizo employees mostly came from there as well). They know other professionals in the industry. Many who work there, have worked there for a very long time. They have access to a great deal of information you do not have access to. If you are better at their job than they are, you should have gravitated to be working there long ago. The fact you didn't suggests you do not have their level of expertise in that field. You are of course free to comment and speculate and depend on your knack all you want...but of course the rest of us are free to view it however we choose, and I am choosing to view your comment as the thoughts of a person who does not know just how much he or she does not know, and who has never had to provide results in the field of RPG design and publishing. Further, even in a world where you did somehow know how to do the job of professional RPG designers and publishers better than the professionals having never done it yourself, how would we know that, and why would we take your word for it? We don't know you, as you say. Given the word of an actual professional in that field versus a stranger, wouldn't YOU take the word of the professional over the random stranger? I mean, if I tell you I know better than you, because I have experience and knack, would you simply nod and agree I must be right even if it goes against your instincts? If not...why do you think we'd react different to you when you do that? [/QUOTE]

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