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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Maggan" data-source="post: 5653423" data-attributes="member: 6616">I'll join in on the announcement speculation! The planes speculation is just Plan of Boring combined with Plane of Tedious. Almost makes me reconsider my love for Planescape.Anyways.This tweet went out before GenCon:I think that what Morrus heard jives with this. And I think that what could have been announced was a marketing drive to lead up to D&D that would have been called "The Quest for D&D".This would be an open process, involving "dnd superstars" as well as "ordinary" fans (the real superstars maybe?). The goal would be to get down to it and try to figure out what D&D is, and what an edition that is both true to the old ideals but yet also takes into account the changing whims of the gaming community would look like.It would be a two year project.Someone then decided that it would lead to the Osborne Effect kicking in, and also that it would take down the Internet as a result of massive flamewars. It would also give people endless reasons to be mad at WotC, as the designers would have to put out different drafts of things they were working on and these would be shredded to pieces.So, the announcement was cancelled, and they will instead start with an open playtest of the minis game.EDIT: As for my credentials, I once posted a made up rumour of how the OGL would be structured just days before it was released, that was near spot on as I remember. (I did it to show that making up credible rumours is easy. It went straight to the front page of EN World, and I had to fess up and hang my head in shame). So, with that in mind consider my version 100% accurate. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />/M</blockquote>

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