Second Edition & Statistics
First, a lot of the suggested improvements for the game, whether coming from designers or fans online, were already implemented in second edition. Classes, for example, could be used as-is, with a kit to modify some aspects, or extremely customized with the Skills and Powers rules. Sounds relatively modular to me. To what extent is second edition being mined for character options?
Second, we know you've been gathering information from polls, forums, and playests, but also from the usage of the current online tools (stats on which classes are most popular, which articles are most downloaded and redownloaded). Can you give us any insight into how these are being analysed? Are you defining fighters and wizards as popular because there are lots in the online builder, for example, or because you see those characters being slowly modified the most? Do you have a statistician doing this analysis?