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<blockquote data-quote="Mercurius" data-source="post: 5696700" data-attributes="member: 59082"><p>[MENTION=10479]Mark CMG[/MENTION] - that would be my guess as well. See, we can agree on <em>some </em>things ;-).</p><p></p><p>As for whether or not WotC is working on 5E,<em> of course they are. </em>They started working on 5E as soon as 4E was sent to the presses. Now whether or not they are <em>actively </em>working on it, that's a different matter. I would agree with whoever said that they probably started doing so--if only in Mike Mearls grey matter soup and possibly brainstorming sessions--back around the time Essentials came out, or shortly thereafter. So about a year maybe? </p><p></p><p>My guess is that Mearls and his close group of brainstormers came up with a wish-list of designers and then approached Monte Cook, who agreed and was hired. With his hiring I'm thinking 5E design is going into high gear. A 2012 GenCon announcement seems about right, although we might start hearing deliberately leaked rumors in a few months and may even get an official announcement in early 2012, with possible alpha playtesting later in the year, and a beta release at GenCon, a limited run Beta 5E Players Handbook for GenCon folks only.</p><p></p><p>Then you'd have another six months of playtesting and fine-tuning, with a June, 2013 release. (Of course at that point we'll be in the next Mayan baktun, so who knows what sort of format 5E will be released in <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big grin :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" />).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mercurius, post: 5696700, member: 59082"] [MENTION=10479]Mark CMG[/MENTION] - that would be my guess as well. See, we can agree on [I]some [/I]things ;-). As for whether or not WotC is working on 5E,[I] of course they are. [/I]They started working on 5E as soon as 4E was sent to the presses. Now whether or not they are [I]actively [/I]working on it, that's a different matter. I would agree with whoever said that they probably started doing so--if only in Mike Mearls grey matter soup and possibly brainstorming sessions--back around the time Essentials came out, or shortly thereafter. So about a year maybe? My guess is that Mearls and his close group of brainstormers came up with a wish-list of designers and then approached Monte Cook, who agreed and was hired. With his hiring I'm thinking 5E design is going into high gear. A 2012 GenCon announcement seems about right, although we might start hearing deliberately leaked rumors in a few months and may even get an official announcement in early 2012, with possible alpha playtesting later in the year, and a beta release at GenCon, a limited run Beta 5E Players Handbook for GenCon folks only. Then you'd have another six months of playtesting and fine-tuning, with a June, 2013 release. (Of course at that point we'll be in the next Mayan baktun, so who knows what sort of format 5E will be released in :D). [/QUOTE]
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