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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 7660769" data-attributes="member: 7006">That was one of the running jokes / concerns here on ENWorld at the time.  Cook mentioned the idea of maybe making a "Passive Perception" kind of system in Next (I think in one of his Legends & Lore columns) as a possible direction they could go in, not realizing that it was already in the 4E game.  So people were ripping on him for being so far out of the D&D loop that he didn't even know what the game currently was that he was working on.I found the whole reaction kind of silly, since all of these web articles have always seemed like they were written last minute at the end of the day Friday when the person suddenly remembered "Oh crap, I have an article due!", which is why they've never been completely polished or free of bugaboos.  But people here took them so goddamned seriously and you'd think the earth was falling into the sun and that Cook shot their dog based on the reactions people had to him writing as though he was inventing Passive Perception in his column.</blockquote>