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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 6049397" data-attributes="member: 7006">Right now they're doing exactly what they should be doing.They take the stuff they've come up with... and seeing how far they can go with it.&nbsp; At some point they'll reach a point of diminishing returns and they'll pull back.&nbsp; But they won't know what that point is until they put it out there for people to test.That's what they're doing with Expertise Dice.They made them for Fighters, people mostly seemed to like them, they wondered if they could be an effective &quot;martial&quot; system, they trotted them out for Rogues, now they go even further by trotting them out for Monks.&nbsp; Now what will happen is that when they receive feedback... they'll either find out that most players really like the mechanic for the Rogue and Monk too (and thus pretty soon we'll see a packet that uses ED for the paladin, ranger, and barbarian)... or they'll be told in no uncertain terms that the ED are now less interesting and watered-down because they don't fit the Monk and/or Rogue (and thus another packet down the line will revert them back to Fighter-only).But you can't find any of this out UNTIL you actually offer it up to people... and give them a chance to actually see the rule before coming to the conclusion that it's a P.O.S.All we can do as playtesters is be honest and frank in the surveys and feedback... and hope that what we see is similar to most of the other players out there.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 6049397, member: 7006"] Right now they're doing exactly what they should be doing. They take the stuff they've come up with... and seeing how far they can go with it. At some point they'll reach a point of diminishing returns and they'll pull back. But they won't know what that point is until they put it out there for people to test. That's what they're doing with Expertise Dice. They made them for Fighters, people mostly seemed to like them, they wondered if they could be an effective "martial" system, they trotted them out for Rogues, now they go even further by trotting them out for Monks. Now what will happen is that when they receive feedback... they'll either find out that most players really like the mechanic for the Rogue and Monk too (and thus pretty soon we'll see a packet that uses ED for the paladin, ranger, and barbarian)... or they'll be told in no uncertain terms that the ED are now less interesting and watered-down because they don't fit the Monk and/or Rogue (and thus another packet down the line will revert them back to Fighter-only). But you can't find any of this out UNTIL you actually offer it up to people... and give them a chance to actually see the rule before coming to the conclusion that it's a P.O.S. All we can do as playtesters is be honest and frank in the surveys and feedback... and hope that what we see is similar to most of the other players out there. [/QUOTE]

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