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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MaxKaladin" data-source="post: 2095209" data-attributes="member: 1196">I suspect we're about two and a half years from a new edition -- maybe a year and a half.  I think a lot of it depends on the sales of core rules and 'generic' suppliments (like the "Races of ..." and "Complete ..." books).  Once the sales on those start to run down, I think they're going to do a new edition.  Since they're pretty much done with the race and class books, I suspect we're going to see a few more generic suppliments over the next year or two and then a new edition.  I suspect we're going to see books like the "DMG II" over the next year and a half or so and then they'll announce 4e at Gencon 2006 for a Gencon 2007 release.  They might hold off longer if they can keep coming up with core suppliments that are financially successful.  I think the environment line is one example of this and I note they've scheduled a 'genre series' and a 'magic series' for 2005 as well.  I think these are things they're doing to keep the core suppliment money coming in and 4e will be delayed as long as these make enough money.  When they've run out of books or the books they're selling aren't making enough money, they'll do 4e.  I suspect that will be Gencon 2007 or perhaps 2008.  Demands from the suits at Hasbro might shorten this.  It might be possible for this to get stretched out to 2010 if they're successful enough with the genre, magic and environment books as they can release these at a rate of 1 or 2 per year for the next 5 years and then release 4e to get the whole cycle started again.I do believe the claim that we'll know a year ahead of time before 4e because they will want to conduct a massive advertising campaing before the new edition though just like they did with 2e and 3e.</blockquote>

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