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Playtesting is good, and I'm sure we'll all be doing some amount of it over the next year. That's awesome, and I really can't wait. In the meantime, we should also be looking at diverse RPGs and really getting a handle on what we like and dislike in a roleplaying game. It's not enough to know what we've liked in DnD, we've got to get a handle on what things contribute most to making a solid RPG. Especially if the goal of dndnext is to make something that supports the desires of everyone from the old "DnD as a Chainmail Hack" days all the way to 4e.

That's one helluva tall order, but I think we can do it. So, here are some recomendations that I think will help us all get a better handle on what we're looking at, and what we could do.

Old School Hack has some very innovative takes on core...