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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 5715964" data-attributes="member: 7006">Besides which... this isn't a real poll.  None of these three options are the actual options any future game is going to have.  We aren't actually deciding on anything right now, so there's no real need to find more exact 'middle ground' between options 1 & 2, or options 2 & 3.  All that matters is if there's an overwhelming support for one thing over the two others.If the poll resulted in 90% of all players saying they wanted option 1... something I suspect none of the R&D department would ever think would actually occur in the poll voting... it'd be a massive shift in what we players currently have and what we appear to want.  They'd know that the game's apparently been on the wrong track, and that it was time to take a deeper look at things.  Conversely, if 90% of the players voted Option 3... that'd tell them that the sound of complaints saying that the game was too complicated might just be from a smaller but much more vocal group of individuals and not reflective of the gaming populace more as a whole (granting the truth that those who vote in the WotC polls are also not reflective of the gaming populace as a whole either).If this poll was to pick how 5E's skills would actually be... then sure, wanting more gradations of choice would be expected.  But for just broad-based 'taking the temperature of the populace' questions... the 'No check, DM decides, rules decide' options are really all they need just to make sure there hasn't been a massive miscalculation up to this point.</blockquote>

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