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While my OP tended to focus on items excluded from the "core", needless to say (but I'm doing so anyway) that inclusion is the same thing. As it is, there are threads now saying that including something the poster disagrees with is egregious (such as warforged or warlords) and thus it's not the...

True, but as I said measure what they state their design goals to be against what they actually accomplish, not against what you imagine them to be. For example, they never said you'd be able to use your 1e book at the same table as someone using a 3e book, but that was readily found uttered in...

I'm sorry, but you may be disappointed.

That's what PR is.

Yes, but by having unreliable leaks (and likely incomplete) they could very well be doing that, but in a way that won't let them respond. In other words, they have set it up so they can't really comment on leaked NDA stuff, without losing credibility, but if it were open then they could - and...

I believe you'll find that game mechanics can't be copyrighted, so I think the NDA having anything to do with other publishers is a red herring - especially given that the info's going to get out anyway and a publisher could simply say that since they hadn't signed an NDA, they were under no...

The core is absolutely the key, which is why I think we as players (those interested in at least giving it the sniff test) owe it to ourselves and to the designers to have reasonable expectations about what can possibly go in the core. Hence my original post.

The playtest's the thing. And NDA or not, it's going to be leaked. Would have been much more intelligent for them to control the release of information. Doing it the way they're doing it means that there could be some anti-WotC bias hidden in the leaks, whereas officially releasing it allows...

I bought the 2 4e preview books back in the day, but I'm unlikely to do so for any 5e products unless they were under $5.

I daresay not everyone has heard it, believes it, or remembers it.

Except that for us, in the early-mid 80s, our RPG games were nothing like you describe. When we sat around the game shop and talked shop, players in other games described nothing like you describe. While I thank you for your post, I feel that you have too many unsupported assertions that...

To expand on this, if you use iBooks to create ebooks and wish to sell them, then you are required to exclusively sell them via the Apple store. iBooks Author Requires Selling Original Books Through iBookstore, Says Apple's Controversial Contract

Yep, the big hangup is 4e. Yep, the big hangup is also OD&D. And, I hasten to add, the big hangup is also 2e. And let's not forget the big hangup, 3e. Each one is the single greatest threat to 5e.

When the DDXP playtest occurs, there will be a lot of people disappointed. When the open playtest occurs, there will be a lot of people disappointed. When the next iteration of D&D is released, there will be a lot of people disappointed. And Wizards of the Coast won't be to blame. Looking...

It's a good general policy to have.

Which is why in addition to their lawyers, I think WotC should fire their PR people. Or whoever dreamed this up.

I see, thanks for the clarification.

Epistemology is a useful tool.

Punctuality of the license was a major factor with companies around the 4e launch, why would it not be with 5e? I remember Green Ronin, Necromancer, Paizo, et al commenting on the lead time necessary to get their first 4e books out in a timely manner after the launch of 4e and it was many...

Seems fair enough, since it's doubtful you'd have had the information otherwise and if you did, it's arguable that a premature release of information (that is, before WotC was ready to back it up) would have been damaging to all concerned. Journalism doesn't have to be nihilism. Journalism...