toyrobots |
Forum friends, please stop writing "Look here Jason!" in posts and titles.
It trivializes your colleagues in the discussion, and I don't think it casts suggestions in a favorable light. Your good ideas should stand on their own merit, and the energy of the forum's response.
There is no reason to keep doing this. Please stop.
(EDIT: I realize there is another thread posted recently that does exactly this... I don't mean to target this one poster. I have just noticed increasingly people seem to want to talk directly to the designers rather than to each other. I don't think their email addresses are that hard to find...)
Mattastrophic |
Forum friends, please stop writing "Look here Jason!" in posts and titles.
It trivializes your colleagues in the discussion, and I don't think it casts suggestions in a favorable light. Your good ideas should stand on their own merit, and the energy of the forum's response.
There is no reason to keep doing this. Please stop.
Related gripe:
-People who "vote" for rules change suggestions, as if this game will be designed by a democratic vote, with rules text decided by simple majority.
-Matt
Biggus |
Related gripe:-People who "vote" for rules change suggestions, as if this game will be designed by a democratic vote, with rules text decided by simple majority.
-Matt
I don't think anyone thinks it will be "decided by simple majority".
However, I do think that if a clear majority prefer one rule over the other, that will influence the game designers' choices. Not determine, but influence.
If you don't think that, why bother posting here at all?
Tarren Dei RPG Superstar 2009 Top 8 |
toyrobots wrote:Forum friends, please stop writing "Look here Jason!" in posts and titles.
It trivializes your colleagues in the discussion, and I don't think it casts suggestions in a favorable light. Your good ideas should stand on their own merit, and the energy of the forum's response.
There is no reason to keep doing this. Please stop.
Related gripe:
-People who "vote" for rules change suggestions, as if this game will be designed by a democratic vote, with rules text decided by simple majority.
-Matt
Congratulations, Matt, on your hundredth post. *blows party horn*
Bagpuss |
However, I do think that if a clear majority prefer one rule over the other, that will influence the game designers' choices. Not determine, but influence.
If you don't think that, why bother posting here at all?
In the playtest reports, I can see that happening. In the logical argument, I think that the weight of argument will have more effect, which basically means that arguments that appeal more to the designers' own internal understandings are probably going to carry more weight (the reduction of the good starting saves for Prestige Classes being an example, I think. The designers were talking about it being a problem and plenty of people agreed that they should be reduced, but no one illustrated a build where it was shown to be a problem. Of course, maybe the designers had some and didn't show them to us, or maybe they had already made up their minds and the discussion didn't matter, but I would think that the support on the forums made a difference even if only to confirm to them what they were already thinking).
The reason that I think that majority shouldn't matter other than in the direct playtest feedback is because those of us that post on the boards are a small, self-selected sample of the wider market for the game (indeed, if we are not a small sample, there may be too small a market to make it worthwhile). That's fine for the playtest, of course, but for the preference arguments, there has to be the matter of considering the strength of the logic over the number of people holding the opinion.
Black Dow |
Congratulations, Matt, on your hundredth post. *blows party horn*
Enter Black Dow [Summoned by the Horn of Partying]
Waitaminute... where was the sweet sound of that horn when I hit 100...??? Is this a new development, or are northmen excluded from such parties until they reach the Ragnarok of 1,000,000 posts?
Tarren Dei RPG Superstar 2009 Top 8 |
Tarren Dei wrote:Congratulations, Matt, on your hundredth post. *blows party horn*Enter Black Dow [Summoned by the Horn of Partying]
Waitaminute... where was the sweet sound of that horn when I hit 100...??? Is this a new development, or are northmen excluded from such parties until they reach the Ragnarok of 1,000,000 posts?
Umm ... I missed it. Next hornblowing will be when you reach 1000.