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<blockquote data-quote="Jester David" data-source="post: 6557554" data-attributes="member: 37579">Where does Mearls say that he doesn't have an invisible dragon in his garage? Mearls never said that. If you argue otherwise, that is your personal opinion, not something Mearls said.WotC, like other publishers, has to give distributors and retailers a lot of lead time with products, so they can place orders and manage their finances. They used to announce things to the public prior to this, often as far in advance as a year. This has changed, and WotC is now announcing things only a couple months prior. So retail channels will often be aware sooner. This has been the case for a number of years, as can be seen by amazon and other web retailers often &quot;leaking&quot; a product to keen-eyed folk, with webpages made public too early. These are not authorized leaks or grassroots attempts to tease information and build hype. Just like most Apple gurus often know the specs and details of next-gen iProducts before they're &quot;announced&quot;. But it's been a while since a product was &quot;announced&quot; through it's product listing on amazon. So WotC is most likely asking that this not happen and trying to take steps to prevent this. So it's fair to say the Elemental Evil leak was indeed unauthorized.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jester David, post: 6557554, member: 37579"] Where does Mearls say that he doesn't have an invisible dragon in his garage? Mearls never said that. If you argue otherwise, that is your personal opinion, not something Mearls said. WotC, like other publishers, has to give distributors and retailers a lot of lead time with products, so they can place orders and manage their finances. They used to announce things to the public prior to this, often as far in advance as a year. This has changed, and WotC is now announcing things only a couple months prior. So retail channels will often be aware sooner. This has been the case for a number of years, as can be seen by amazon and other web retailers often "leaking" a product to keen-eyed folk, with webpages made public too early. These are not authorized leaks or grassroots attempts to tease information and build hype. Just like most Apple gurus often know the specs and details of next-gen iProducts before they're "announced". But it's been a while since a product was "announced" through it's product listing on amazon. So WotC is most likely asking that this not happen and trying to take steps to prevent this. So it's fair to say the Elemental Evil leak was indeed unauthorized. [/QUOTE]

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