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<blockquote data-quote="Remathilis" data-source="post: 7688035" data-attributes="member: 7635"><p>If the vision is clear, why is it so hard to communicate it? </p><p></p><p>Let's take the Eberron playtest: it was the first UA and is coming up on its first birthday in a month or so. We got three races, a subclass, and a rather complex feat. We gave feedback on it via surveys, tweets, and messageboards, and they said things needed work. Fair enough. </p><p></p><p>Then, silence.</p><p></p><p>Most people assumed it meant an Eberron book is in the works. Makes sense, right? Except that doesn't jive with the "Realms in the foreseeable future" mantra surrounding the APs. Why playtest a bunch of stuff that doesn't seem to connect to any product? The Waterborne UA stuff was a hodgepodge of stuff that did see print (swashbuckler and storm sorcerer), didn't (marine fighting style) and very specific setting material (Krynnotaurs). Why give us a Krynn-specific race to playtest if Krynn isn't somewhere on the docket? Yet, it was stated that ToD was an attempt to capture a Dragonlance-style game "in the Realms" which again seems like conflicting viewpoints. Why waste design time on races and rules that won't see print anytime in the next year or so? </p><p></p><p>We had a finished "picture" of the Mongrelfolk flavor-text (from a monster or possibly racial writeup) that everyone assumed would be in OotA, except that monster wasn't. Nor was it in SCAG. We're not talking a UA or some draft doc; it looked like finished typeset on the parchment background. Where did the mongrelfolk go? Is it for another AP? MM2? Were they cut from OotA? Was it all a fever dream? Or how about how many people were expect a Rage of Demons Player's Companion after the EE one. Couldn't WotC have said "not this time, but we have something else in the works" knowing the SCAG was full steam ahead? (For that matter, what happened to the Monster Supplement for OotA like the other two APs had for those who were running under the Basic Rules only. So much for that notion.)</p><p></p><p>Again and again, WotC seems to lack either some grand vision for what they want out of TT or the ability to communicate it to its fans. As you said, its 2 APs per year, and maybe something else if we finish it. It doesn't speak of a clear vision, it speaks of the bare minimum and a lot of uncertainty.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Remathilis, post: 7688035, member: 7635"] If the vision is clear, why is it so hard to communicate it? Let's take the Eberron playtest: it was the first UA and is coming up on its first birthday in a month or so. We got three races, a subclass, and a rather complex feat. We gave feedback on it via surveys, tweets, and messageboards, and they said things needed work. Fair enough. Then, silence. Most people assumed it meant an Eberron book is in the works. Makes sense, right? Except that doesn't jive with the "Realms in the foreseeable future" mantra surrounding the APs. Why playtest a bunch of stuff that doesn't seem to connect to any product? The Waterborne UA stuff was a hodgepodge of stuff that did see print (swashbuckler and storm sorcerer), didn't (marine fighting style) and very specific setting material (Krynnotaurs). Why give us a Krynn-specific race to playtest if Krynn isn't somewhere on the docket? Yet, it was stated that ToD was an attempt to capture a Dragonlance-style game "in the Realms" which again seems like conflicting viewpoints. Why waste design time on races and rules that won't see print anytime in the next year or so? We had a finished "picture" of the Mongrelfolk flavor-text (from a monster or possibly racial writeup) that everyone assumed would be in OotA, except that monster wasn't. Nor was it in SCAG. We're not talking a UA or some draft doc; it looked like finished typeset on the parchment background. Where did the mongrelfolk go? Is it for another AP? MM2? Were they cut from OotA? Was it all a fever dream? Or how about how many people were expect a Rage of Demons Player's Companion after the EE one. Couldn't WotC have said "not this time, but we have something else in the works" knowing the SCAG was full steam ahead? (For that matter, what happened to the Monster Supplement for OotA like the other two APs had for those who were running under the Basic Rules only. So much for that notion.) Again and again, WotC seems to lack either some grand vision for what they want out of TT or the ability to communicate it to its fans. As you said, its 2 APs per year, and maybe something else if we finish it. It doesn't speak of a clear vision, it speaks of the bare minimum and a lot of uncertainty. [/QUOTE]
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