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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ahnehnois" data-source="post: 6205580" data-attributes="member: 17106">That's a very harsh attitude. Reading and posting are things that people can do easily on their own time, not infrequently while working. Running an actual game is a significant commitment for several people to use their shared time. I suspect that I'm not alone among ENWorlders in having a backlog of systems and campaign ideas to run. Convening five people for something that I think might be worth my time, as opposed to something that I know is worth my time, is not an appealing decision.And it's important to know that it's entirely possible that a system can read well and convince me that it's worth my time to try it without playing it, so that's not an unreasonable bar.Think of reading the books as being analogous to viewing promotional material for a movie. Is watching a 90 second trailer the same as actually being in the theater and watching the whole thing with your 3D glasses on and an audience around you? No. Is the former a sufficient and reasonable basis to decide whether you want to spend money on the latter? Yes. Is the quality of promotional material as well as the quality of the whole product relevant to the success of the final product? You bet.If reading the 5e playtest documents (or even reading less than that, say, just the announcements or columns from the WotC website) is enough to convince me, or [MENTION=5038]Greg K[/MENTION] or anyone else that it isn't worth playing the game for real, that's on them, not us.</blockquote>

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