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There's another Vistani article on Monday, and then another next Friday. Theoretically these will contain all the crunch.

I strongly agree with you that at least the heritage feat needed to be included in this article, though. All this lovely flavor text would be a lot more useful if we had the major mechanic that it describes.

This isn't even a bad article, but it isn't useful. The first Vistani article really needed to be the one with the actual Vistani mechanics in it. As I said before, an article about the flavor of playing Vistani doesn't do us any good if we don't have the ability to play Vistani. This is sort of like posting the epic assassin article before the heroic one would have been: It's neat, but we don't have the tools to actually use it, so it's just the same as it not being published until we get the basic mechanics.

I can only agree that this is full of fail.

I have the impetus to come here and look in the forums and search the calendar, but many other poeple might simply read the article and then think that an error was made and A) Be Angry, something you generally want to avoid if possible with your customer base or B) Send an email about the "bug" which then fills wizards inbox with useless spam.

We like the digital content just fine, but this is the wrong way to post these articles. Stringing this out does not build tension or excitement, it simply angers your player base. If I see an article titled "Playing Vistani" I would expect, minimum, that it would let me PLAY Vistani, which of course, I can not do at this point. It was okay with the assassin because A) It had logical breaking points, namely the tiers and B) It was posted on the calenday as Assassin: Heroic Teir, so we all had set our expectations correctly.

I understand you are trying lots of new things and part of this is throwing spaghetti at the wall to see what sticks. This should not stick. Next month when we go to shorter and daily articles, I REALLY don't want to be dealing with this.

I DO NOT want to see - Tuesday: New Fighter powers 1-3, Wednesday : Fighter powers 5-9, Thursday: Fighter Heroic feats. That is not shorter articles, that is just breaking up one article and making it annoying to read.

I think people are acting a little rash, honestly.

It was clearly pointed out in the Editorial Calendar that there would be three seperate articles, and I expected one to be fluff.

Yes, it was kind've messed up to allow it to be the first one. However, I'm sure this is no big ploy for Wizards to 'rob us of our money' - it's just them testing the waters with a new layout idea they had. Many companies do it.

As for the article itself, and as a fan of Ravenloft Vistani, I found it informative and fun - and well edited, so I'll disagree with any statements otherwise. I enjoyed the fluff they offered, though I was initially apprehensive to it when I found out it was a bloodline based race - I enjoy the crunch of fully fleshed races. And sure, it plays up some of the stereotypes, but not in a derogatory manner and no more than they have with other items within the game (see primal power source).

Admittedly, though, it is infuriating reading the article and hearing all about the 'blooding' ceremony and their ability to curse and stuff. I wish they would've at least included some crunch towards that or the initial bloodline feat. Oh well, I will say I am excited for Monday.