Creative Director, Starfinder
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We're excited to get your feedback on the Starfinder Character Operations Manual Playtest, and are looking forward to seeing what you think of the new classes. Here are some tips to help ensure that your voice is heard.
• Show respect for others. That includes other posters, Paizo employees, and other game companies. If your posts are disrespectful to ANYONE, we (and many other people reading) will tune you out (and depending on the severity, it may get your post deleted).
• Avoid edition wars. Talking negatively about other game systems gets you tuned out (and depending on the severity, may get your post deleted).
• Watch your language. I’m not talking just about foul language, but about language that will turn your readers off. If you tell us that something we did is “a horrific mistake,” we are less likely to listen to anything you have to say.
• Avoid hyperbole. If your posts contain obvious exaggeration, it renders everything you have to say suspect.
• Don’t speak for others. You can give us feedback for your gaming group, but talking like you're speaking for gamers in general is obviously not so, and renders everything you have to say suspect.
• Discuss individual topics in the right place. When we go to look for feedback on something, we're going to look in the appropriate subforum. If your input is somewhere else, it might as well not be anywhere at all.
• Look for appropriate threads to add your feedback to. Seeing someone start the fifth thread on the same topic is mentally exhausting, and even the most diligent reader is likely to start skimming. Posting to an existing thread, even if it’s already long, is so much better.
• Be concise. Walls of text are hard to digest. If you need to make a post that has as many words as, say, this post, use paragraphs, bullet points, and summary statements (like the opening sentence of each point here) where you can.
• Be precise. Use the game terms that are used in the rulebook so we all know for sure what you're talking about. Don't use game terms from other systems unless you are deliberately making comparisons with that system. Avoid slang, including abbreviations—you and your friends might understand them, but others may not have any idea what you're saying.
• Tell us about your actual game play. Theory is all well and good, but everybody’s got theories, and we’ve probably heard most of them already. Tell us how things are actually working in play, not how you think things will work.
• Participate in the surveys. Your messageboard posts may or not be seen by the people who need to see them, but your survey responses will definitely be counted.
• Make your point and move on. If you view every thread that touches on a particular topic as an opportunity to restate your opinion, people will notice, and will stop reading what you say, even on other topics.
Welcome to the playtest!