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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Irda Ranger" data-source="post: 4087737" data-attributes="member: 1003">Just how obvious did they have to make it? Wasn't the fact that the Social Encounters rules were not distributed enough of a clue? Maybe WotC figured that presenting an "adventure" that was nothing more than six combats in a direct row was enough of a hint that this was solely a preview of the combat section?Could WotC have included the Social Encounter rules and a couple Social Encounter rules? Sure. But they didn't.Here's the OP's point:Valid Criticism: "Well, I've run through a couple playtest combats, and based on my experience the Ranger appears to be too powerful in all combat situations relative to the other PCs."  This would be valid because the player has seen a variety of PCs and a variety of tactical situations; enough to form a tentative opinion.Non-Valid Criticism: "Well, I've run through a couple playtest combats, and clearly there is too much focus on combat in 4E."  This doesn't compute because the commenter has to direct experience with the non-combat parts of the game.  It's not enough to know one thing to make a comparison; you have to know at least two things.  It would be as invalid to say "Rituals just aren't good enough to replace the spell list's shortcomings."  How could you possibly know that yet.Non-valid criticism, more like, for the reasons outlined above.If you're commenting on things you have no information about, that's your fault.This could well be.Relatedly ....That wasn't the OPs point at all.  Forming opinions based on information you have is fine. It's forming opinions based on information you don't have that the OP is complaining about.The Complaint: 4E overly focuses on tactical combat.The Problem With The Complaint: Until you've seen the game as a whole, you can't know whether too much effort (or page count) has been spent on any one part. It's inherantly a holistic exercise to say "Too much was committed to X."</blockquote>

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