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<blockquote data-quote="Morrus" data-source="post: 5821804" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><span style="font-size: 12px">As you probably know, there are a number of people out there who have playtested early development versions of D&D Next under non-disclosure-agreements (NDAs). These include attendees of DDXP last month, those who played the game at WotC HQ last year prior to the official announcements, and those on the "Friends & Family" playtest program currently going on. So far there has been very little leakage about these experiences, but in the last couple of days at least two individual people claim to be spilling the beans in defiance of the NDAs they signed.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">Now, we're not saying these are real. We honestly don't know. We're certainly not treating the info a "confirmed" (and so it's not making it on to our </span><a href="http://www.enworld.org/index.php?page=dnd5e" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 12px">D&D 5E Info page</span></a><span style="font-size: 12px">). We can't strongly emphasize enough that you should take these with a hefty grain of salt. But it's worth talking about, nonetheless.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">The first appeared on the </span><a href="http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showpost.php?p=12709283&postcount=314" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 12px">Giant in the Playground forums</span></a><span style="font-size: 12px">.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">This one was officially debunked by WotC's community manager, Trevor Kidd:</span></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-size: 12px">Looking over your post, this doesn't sound like our playtest or playtest material, so I'm not exactly sure what you're referencing. If you would like to talk to me about the playtest material, you can PM me on this site or the Wizards site.</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-size: 12px">For everyone reading and commenting though, I do want to stop the misinformation right now - this doesn't look at all like our playtest process or material.</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-size: 12px">Trevor Kidd</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-size: 12px">Community Manager</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-size: 12px">Wizards of the Coast</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">The second appears to be a little older, and can be </span><a href="http://archive.foolz.us/tg/thread/17721994/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 12px">found here</span></a><span style="font-size: 12px"> (the posts with the information are by the poster named <strong>NDAnon </strong>and thanks to Estlor for pointing them out). Please note that there is some profanity at that link, so it may not be work or child-friendly. The poster in question says "Ask a 5e playtester who doesn't give half a **** about NDAs anything." It's a long, archived thread, so the info is very much spread out in tiny chunks.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">So, there you have it. Make of it what you will; I'm certainly not calling either as legit, and Trevor Kidd has stated that the first is definitely not.</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Morrus, post: 5821804, member: 1"] [SIZE=3]As you probably know, there are a number of people out there who have playtested early development versions of D&D Next under non-disclosure-agreements (NDAs). These include attendees of DDXP last month, those who played the game at WotC HQ last year prior to the official announcements, and those on the "Friends & Family" playtest program currently going on. So far there has been very little leakage about these experiences, but in the last couple of days at least two individual people claim to be spilling the beans in defiance of the NDAs they signed.[/SIZE] [SIZE=3]Now, we're not saying these are real. We honestly don't know. We're certainly not treating the info a "confirmed" (and so it's not making it on to our [/SIZE][URL="http://www.enworld.org/index.php?page=dnd5e"][SIZE=3]D&D 5E Info page[/SIZE][/URL][SIZE=3]). We can't strongly emphasize enough that you should take these with a hefty grain of salt. But it's worth talking about, nonetheless.[/SIZE] [SIZE=3]The first appeared on the [/SIZE][URL="http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showpost.php?p=12709283&postcount=314"][SIZE=3]Giant in the Playground forums[/SIZE][/URL][SIZE=3].[/SIZE] [SIZE=3]This one was officially debunked by WotC's community manager, Trevor Kidd:[/SIZE] [INDENT][SIZE=3]Looking over your post, this doesn't sound like our playtest or playtest material, so I'm not exactly sure what you're referencing. If you would like to talk to me about the playtest material, you can PM me on this site or the Wizards site.[/SIZE] [SIZE=3]For everyone reading and commenting though, I do want to stop the misinformation right now - this doesn't look at all like our playtest process or material.[/SIZE] [SIZE=3]Trevor Kidd[/SIZE] [SIZE=3]Community Manager[/SIZE] [SIZE=3]Wizards of the Coast[/SIZE] [/INDENT][SIZE=3]The second appears to be a little older, and can be [/SIZE][URL="http://archive.foolz.us/tg/thread/17721994/"][SIZE=3]found here[/SIZE][/URL][SIZE=3] (the posts with the information are by the poster named [B]NDAnon [/B]and thanks to Estlor for pointing them out). Please note that there is some profanity at that link, so it may not be work or child-friendly. The poster in question says "Ask a 5e playtester who doesn't give half a **** about NDAs anything." It's a long, archived thread, so the info is very much spread out in tiny chunks.[/SIZE] [SIZE=3]So, there you have it. Make of it what you will; I'm certainly not calling either as legit, and Trevor Kidd has stated that the first is definitely not.[/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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