I hear you on the exhaustion thing. Fair point.

GMT has a big burly crew of supernerds chained to keyboards. I can appreciate why their operation is nothing like Nathan gleefully getting WWW the fuck off his hard drive and on to other things.

That said, I think the better small-press games often have really smart playtesters on their teams. I don’t know that it’d be that hard to get essays out of them. Totally speculating! Maybe everyone’s sick to death of the thing once they’re done with it!

Maybe GMT dusts their playtest materials with cocaine or something.