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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jbear" data-source="post: 5347241" data-attributes="member: 75065">Wow, you read my mind!So let's play with a little imaginative logic.WotC has been working on a project that it hasn't been able to talk about until it is finished.WotC's policy is not to announce new 4e software beforehand.This policy exists because of its failure to produce the promised VTT.This failure to produce the VTT may have caused a very negative customer reaction.This policy exists becasue WotC does not want similar negative customer reactions.WotC does not want negative customer reactions.WotC fail to update the CB in September.WotC makes will make an update in October but the Dark Sun and Essentials material will be restricted to the Compendium.Dark Sun and Essentials have generated a second wind of interest in 4e.WotC wants to attract new customers.Essentials has unsettled some satisfied customers due to fears that this new direction will be the only future direction.Both of these additions to the CB are big additions that a lot of people are waiting for with a good deal of illusion and many with growing impatience.The delay is causing a negative backlash from unsatisfied customers.WotC has offered refunds for september.WotC does not want to lose current customers.WotC has announced that it is reorganising feats.Since Essentials release, Wizard's powers are being updated to have effects on a missDark Sun introduces Themes.Essentials introduce an alternative class structure to Fighters, Rogues, Clerics and Wizards.It seems possible that these changes alone would be enough to cause a significant delay in such a big update.WotC breaks radio silence with the announcement of a reduced update of the CB in October alongside the announcement of (a) new web based tool(s).WotC has formerly declared that it has a department working on very exciting projects that can't be talked about until ready.The announcement of web based tools has generated the rumour that the CB will be web based once it is released.Such a possibility would protect WotC from pirating.Many happy customers have had a negative reaction to this rumour.WotC ceased the production of PDFs to protect themselves to some degree from pirating.This had a negative backlash from customers.Pirating of D&D books continues.Some people are excited about a web based CB because it opens up the possibility of the CB being used on macsI may have missed a few points. It's late and my mind is blurrier than my eyes and I can barely see the screen.Can I draw some kind of conclusion from all of the above. Well lets imagine, the beginning of november rolls around and WotC finally make their long awaited announcement about this web based tool that they have been working on, which we presume they imagine is going to really excite customers, as opposed to having a negative backlash:"Well guys, thanks for baring with us through september and october. A lot of changes have been introduced to the CB with Dark Sun and Essentials, not to mention we've reorganised the feat section from top to bottom. And it will be up and ready to go on Tuesday! And, now we have surprise fro you! The CB is now an exclusively web based application!!! So you'll all be as excited as we are, now you can use your CB on your macs!!!"Ok, so I don't know what you can glean from all those tidbits of 'things we know' and 'things WotC must surely take into account the next time around' to try and figure out what is going to be announced, but if I had to put money on what it's NOT going to be, I'd say it was what I wrote above. It just wouldn't make sense. And if it were the case, surely there must be something more.What that something more is who knows. But if we're betting ... I'd say it's going to be something cool enough that if they are going to make the CB web based, which they must know is going to have some kind of negative backlash, then the coolness factor of the other new tools far outweigh the 'suck' of no more tabletop CB.</blockquote>

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