Well, I haven't had a chance to finish reading everything, and unless I see something major one way or the other I probably wont comment "officially". But I already gave you kudos for the Ryo-ohki comment ![[Image: smile.gif]](http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/images/emoticons/smile.gif)
As for the people who are giving you what I will call less-than-constructive criticism (like the transliteration issue), there are several things to remember (I've been an author's sounding board for venting about playtest stuff, so I've done this part before )
1) There's no way to make everybody happy 100% of the time - even as the author. So expect to get single complaints about just about every little thing in the book.m But don't worry about it until you see the second.
2) People are stupid (and I include myself in this, so I'm not being discriminatory). Stupid people say stupid things, and make stupid comments. Just laugh at them and keep going.
3) That being said, there are a lot of well thought out, well reasoned arguments out there for changing things in one way or another. But just because they have good reasons for wanting things changed doesn't mean you didn't have a good reason for making them the way you did.
4) Remember the 90% rule: 90% of everything is shit. However, you've spent the last 2 years making sure that most of what you have in the book is part of the 10% that isn't. The playtesters haven't, so you get a lot of comments that are also shit. Sorting through this and pulling out the good stuff is a lot of work.
5) Last thing to remember: People are more likely to speak up about something that they don't like than they are about something they do. So most of the stuff you'll hear is gonna be negative - but it doesn't necessarily reflect the true proportions of opinion...
Sorry if you've heard this before, I just figureid I'd let you know you've got some support out there that understands about playtesting.
Oh, and by the way: "Atta boy!"
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As for the people who are giving you what I will call less-than-constructive criticism (like the transliteration issue), there are several things to remember (I've been an author's sounding board for venting about playtest stuff, so I've done this part before
)1) There's no way to make everybody happy 100% of the time - even as the author. So expect to get single complaints about just about every little thing in the book.m But don't worry about it until you see the second.
2) People are stupid (and I include myself in this, so I'm not being discriminatory). Stupid people say stupid things, and make stupid comments. Just laugh at them and keep going.
3) That being said, there are a lot of well thought out, well reasoned arguments out there for changing things in one way or another. But just because they have good reasons for wanting things changed doesn't mean you didn't have a good reason for making them the way you did.
4) Remember the 90% rule: 90% of everything is shit. However, you've spent the last 2 years making sure that most of what you have in the book is part of the 10% that isn't. The playtesters haven't, so you get a lot of comments that are also shit. Sorting through this and pulling out the good stuff is a lot of work.
5) Last thing to remember: People are more likely to speak up about something that they don't like than they are about something they do. So most of the stuff you'll hear is gonna be negative - but it doesn't necessarily reflect the true proportions of opinion...
Sorry if you've heard this before, I just figureid I'd let you know you've got some support out there that understands about playtesting.
Oh, and by the way: "Atta boy!"
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Drunkard's Walk Forum Moderator and Prereader At Large