WotC_Shoe The rules are finally done: almost

[TerraDave]

closer and closer, but still not quite there.

From his blog.

instead of dice hitting the table we spent some time leveling up and adding magic items to the PCs, and giving the players a chance to more fully digest the rules (since they don't have their own copies they can read at their leisure). We're getting pretty close to final rules, so hopefully the characters won't need much further change beyond the leveling up.

It will be a relief to have all the books final, and to get copies to the players around the table. That way I can focus on introducing other bits in a piecemeal fashion -- like the list of new wands and weapons and other gear I'm taking to next week's game to give the players a few more options for magic items beyond those available in the core rules. We'll be perpetually playtesting, but it will start to seem like a much more "normal" D&D game, instead of the constant state of change we've been in for the past however long...​

 

[catsclaw227]

closer and closer, but still not quite there.

From his blog.

instead of dice hitting the table we spent some time leveling up and adding magic items to the PCs, and giving the players a chance to more fully digest the rules (since they don't have their own copies they can read at their leisure). We're getting pretty close to final rules, so hopefully the characters won't need much further change beyond the leveling up.

It will be a relief to have all the books final, and to get copies to the players around the table. That way I can focus on introducing other bits in a piecemeal fashion -- like the list of new wands and weapons and other gear I'm taking to next week's game to give the players a few more options for magic items beyond those available in the core rules. We'll be perpetually playtesting, but it will start to seem like a much more "normal" D&D game, instead of the constant state of change we've been in for the past however long...​

The tension is pretty thick. WOTC needs to get the GSL to publishers and post more often on DDI. Maybe they will be able to get these things done soon.

But now, they have D&DExp to worry about....

 

[Dolfan]

The tension is pretty thick. WOTC needs to get the GSL to publishers and post more often on DDI. Maybe they will be able to get these things done soon.

But now, they have D&DExp to worry about....

Tension is always going to be thick as a product of this magnitude gets ready for the public, but there is always going to be another project on the horizon. I've been pretty gung ho about wanting to have a DDI subscription, but with the amount of information that's been coming out (not even a post a day), it's dissapointed me considerably.

 

[Keenath]

Yeah... anyone who is surprised or concerned by the fact that they're making changes to the last minute... hasn't ever worked on a big project before, of any sort. There are always changes right down to the wire in everything -- books, computer programs, construction specs...

In publishing, it's not even strange to send a whole list of revisions back to the printer after the proofs come out. (You're supposed to check the proofs and get any typoes and such fixed, but writers often have actual changes to the story or even chapter rewrites to be inserted at that point.)