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Valdrax wrote:

You arrogantly assume too much by accusing them of making a mistake when you are in possession of far less information about the game than they are.

It's possible that they did, but you're far too arrogant in insisting that it must be true and believing that they owe you any kind of explanation.

(And what exactly is a "mistake" about giving people standing next to you a Diplomacy bonus?)

Not at all IMO. It is as simple as reading and playing RPGs. It is likely 90% likely they forgot or did not add the half-elf traits to the pregen, which is a mistake, that is pretty simple to understand. Not including all relivant info for a character is a mistake. Now it may have been on purpose (not enough space, made to long ago to know what the final rules for half-elves were), but it comes across as either an oversight or bad design. Coming arcoss negatively in your advert materials is a mistake.

Now, assuming this is the half-elf stats for 4th, lets play a game, of the following, pick the one 99.99% of RPG players would consider the least effective or complete (i.e. poorly designed to be equal to the others):

1) Extra trained skill, at-will power, feat and +1 to all defenses.
2) Breath weapon/encounter(e), +con to healing surges, +1 to hit and damage when bloodied
3) 7 move, shift in difficult terrain, reroll to hit(e), +1 to perception to all within 10 ft.
4) 5 Fire Resistance, +1 to hit bloodied, +1 to hit/dam(e)
5) +1 to allies within 10ft diplomacy checks
6) +1 to hit, AC and reflex, reroll enemy hit(e), +2 to AC vs AOO, +5 to saves v.s. fear.
7) teleport 5(e), trance (4 hours sleep), considered fey, +5 saves v.s. charm.
8) second wind as minor, -1 to slides/pushes and pulls, +5 saves v.s. posion.

Hmm, one of these things is not like the others (a mistake)...

Sorry for being snide, but seriously it is not too much to ask for them to release a revision of the Pregen corrected. They did it for the DDXP character for goodness sakes, they can do it for published material's pregen's as well.

JJeff wrote:

Having seen the WWGD characters... (I'm the Senior GM for it and my stuff has come in), the half-elf gets a power from another class (and the one for WWGD chose a fanastic synergised one).. until the 6th of June, let's not get too flustered and wait to see what the half-elf truely gets.

Or ask a developer directly without using any of them angry fighting words...

How is that helpful? If your looking to run the KotS game and people are looking at the pregen characters and say "look at all of these errors (sword and shield guy's picture is him wielding axes, etc) oh my god, this half-elf sucks. Just goes to show WOTC is not up to snufff for this new add" and I have players lose interest due to horrific editing, that is a big problem. Not satified to say "oh well, lots of errors and wow their pregens are messed up, oh well, I'm sure they can get it right later."

What I would HOPE would happen is a WOTC staff who has the book, take 30 minutes of their day ONE day, and fixes the PDF's for these guys and re-releases them. Or even have an offical response of anykind on any of the 4-5 boards talking about it a lot.

In my job, allowing a prerelease with this many errors would be a disaster and we'd be all over it to satifiy the customer.