One of the fun things about working at WotC is that you get to work with a bunch of cool people who like what you like. As should come as no surprise, you quickly become friends with your co-workers. This leads to a more informal environment in the workplace than you might normally encounter.
Thus, we spend at least part of every meeting making joke suggestions and joke development passes on those suggestions, such as:
* Balancing a spell by making it reverse the caster's gender in addition to its other effects (not a good balancing mechanic, since you can just cast the spell again and change back.)
* Expressing a bonus a PC grants to allies' Jump checks as a sonic trampoline a character creates by yelling really, really loud (What happens to the trampoline? Does it take up space? Does it float in the air? Can you bounce attacks off it?)
* Would making every attack in the game automatically and automatically kill balance things perfectly? (No, now having a high initiative bonus is broken. We'd have to equalize that, too.)
Here's a bet: Someone will start a thread claiming that sonic trampolines are a big part of 4e. And they will not be joking.
The first two were from a meeting today. The last one is a good example of the kind of stuff we talk about when we're punchy.
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