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<blockquote data-quote="Jester David" data-source="post: 7739084" data-attributes="member: 37579">Which is why I would have liked to see something closer to an eight month playtest rather than a four month playtest. For most groups, four months is likely 4-16 sessions depending on monthly or weekly play. An average is likely 8 sessions, bi-weekly. Probably 7 as one inevitably gets missed. That's enough to see three levels or play. Maybe four. Fully testing a full game of twenty levels with a dozen classes just isn't going to happen. It's going to result in a whole lot of low level play and increasingly less play at high levels. And the rare groups that do try and test high level play are unlikely to have a perfect grasp of their characters enough to spot the abuses and imbalances. I'm not really asking for myself. While getting the PDF early would be cool, I know my group would be unable to actually test. I play in two games: a Star Trek Adventures game, and a 5e game where I've committed to running Tomb of Annihilation and we won't be finished by the playtest window. Carrion Crown is burning a hole in my gaming shelf and that'd be fun to upgrade and test that AP, but the timing won't work. I even considered a third game, but I think my wife would divorce me. But I'm sure there's a way other people (i.e. not me) could have been giving early access. Maybe subscribers to the Pathfinder RPG line. The Adventure Path Charter Subscribers for sure. People who wouldn't be buying the book from stores anyway. Paizo has a history of getting PDFs to subscribers slightly early: this is just a couple months early rather than a couple weeks. Five-star PFS gamemasters would be another good group.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jester David, post: 7739084, member: 37579"] Which is why I would have liked to see something closer to an eight month playtest rather than a four month playtest. For most groups, four months is likely 4-16 sessions depending on monthly or weekly play. An average is likely 8 sessions, bi-weekly. Probably 7 as one inevitably gets missed. That's enough to see three levels or play. Maybe four. Fully testing a full game of twenty levels with a dozen classes just isn't going to happen. It's going to result in a whole lot of low level play and increasingly less play at high levels. And the rare groups that do try and test high level play are unlikely to have a perfect grasp of their characters enough to spot the abuses and imbalances. I'm not really asking for myself. While getting the PDF early would be cool, I know my group would be unable to actually test. I play in two games: a Star Trek Adventures game, and a 5e game where I've committed to running [I]Tomb of Annihilation[/I] and we won't be finished by the playtest window. [I]Carrion Crown[/I] is burning a hole in my gaming shelf and that'd be fun to upgrade and test that AP, but the timing won't work. I even considered a third game, but I think my wife would divorce me. But I'm sure there's a way other people (i.e. not me) could have been giving early access. Maybe subscribers to the Pathfinder RPG line. The Adventure Path Charter Subscribers for sure. People who wouldn't be buying the book from stores anyway. Paizo has a history of getting PDFs to subscribers slightly early: this is just a couple months early rather than a couple weeks. Five-star PFS gamemasters would be another good group. [/QUOTE]

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