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Message: <blockquote data-quote="PatrickLawinger" data-source="post: 2986568" data-attributes="member: 2735">Um, so you are basing this off rumors and speculation from someone "who would be in the position to know."??? Wouldn't it have been a bit more "newsworthy" if you checked into it a bit more? So, who is working on it, no, really. Sure, I can come up with names, but names i can come up with are busy on other projects, those names just don't pan out. Things I have heard from "people in the know" indicate it is NOT presently being worked on. This doesn't mean someone couldn't have started in the past few weeks or might start tomorrow.Based on the planned product release schedule I have serious doubts that 4e is on its way "soon." Is it on the way someday, sure. WotC knows that something like that is going to require more than a few people, it is also going to require extensive playtesting (or better). Any playtesters you know suddenly shut up and start playing games secretively? Knowing they can't effectively keep something like that secret, and that "substantiated rumors" could effectively kill their planned releases for a year and a half means they either have to develop it in complete secrecy (likely without sufficient playtesting) or find a way to hype it without killing their own 3.5 releases.As for the other suppositions, really, I think that the "delve" format clearly suggests moving to a more mini-centric style book. Pretty easy guess that 4e is going to use minis. Frankly, 3.5 is written as being very "mini-centric" but you can easily blow off using minis. If 4e is an RPG it'll be the same. Otherwise it it'll be a wargame/mini-game and won't change 3.5 sales.Could your rumors be true? Certainly, but without a timeline they seem more like shots in the dark and should be considered "speculation" not "news." I think it is a real disservice to call these speculations "news."I am not trying to slam you or anything, really, the tone of the written words here doesn't sound good. I just think that adding fuel to more wonderful 4e rumors without real back-up by calling this "news" simply isn't the way to go.</blockquote>

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