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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 7709429" data-attributes="member: 7006">Trevor Kidd over at WotC does occasionally come over here and read these threads, so you aren't talking completely in a vacuum.  And I would hazard a guess that when the time comes for the survey and they receive a shiteload of responses that all say "The math as it stands does not work at all and I can't even test it effectively.")... if the folks over there are really taken aback by that and want to further know why... chances are pretty good that Trevor will come here, to reddit, to rpg.net and get the full scoop on the situation (including all the math.)But also here's the other thing we have to remember... oftentimes they deliberately post playtest options with "unchecked math" knowing full well that fixing the math later is the easy part.  What is the hard part is knowing whether the actual format of what they are giving us will be embraced.  And for the most part... it seems like that's been embraced okay.  Or at the very least the format has been embraced more positively than the previous version of their mass combat rules did.  It's appears as though it feels better to more people here.  So  if that's what they also get in the survey responses... they know they can in this general direction and just fix the math.But you all do also have a strong point when you say that the math could be so bad that you aren't even able to give a proper analysis on the feel of the rules format.  So in that regard for at least a bunch of you... the article is basically a worthless endeavor and there's nothing WotC can glean from it.  The question then comes down to whether Mike & Co. would agree with that assessment, or would there be enough firmer opinions (on both sides) for them to take legitimate lesson from and make their decisions on whether to continue down the path in design?For that, I have no idea.  But I do believe they will glean something from this at the end of the day.  And for all we know... exactly what they were looking for.</blockquote>

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