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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jester David" data-source="post: 7738948" data-attributes="member: 37579">I’m aware. I know February to April in GenCon crunch, when the books get sent to the printer. Which, at that point, means the layout and content have been done. That’s a long period (serveral months) where the PDFs are effectively “ready” but the books are still being printed or en route where nothing is being publically playtested.Which was my concern. Playtesters don’t NEED a fully laid out and formatted playtest document with art and pretty formatting. Really, a basic Word doc turned into a PDF works just fine, being easier to print out and use at the game table.The thing is...by the time we get the playtest books, we’re not really testing the current game. We’re testing the PRIOR iteration. Because there’s no way ya’ll at Paizo are just going to sit and chill after finishing the Playtest book. You’re going to test and revise and fix in the meantime. The problems we catch in the Playtest book will often be the solved problems. The known errors. The stuff that’s already been changed internally. Which are only going to be a distraction away from the less obvious problems. Plus, by holding off the playtest PDF until the physical books are in stores is effectively halving the playtest period. (Which will likely run August to December.) And that’s a lot of time people could be spending really hammering into the system, and working to get an understanding of higher level play to really give that an accurate test.</blockquote>

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