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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9637281" data-attributes="member: 18">Because I've heard this story before at least a dozen times from a dozen different companies, large and small (some much larger than WotC), and in absolutely none of those cases did it turn out that they actually followed a 5-year plan, even when they actually did have one.If it wasn't worth "lying" (your word, not mine) about, you wouldn't be devoting so much time and effort to defending it. Clearly this putative plan has some kind of significant value to you, not least in claiming it would be followed.Also, I'm not saying they're "lying", I'm saying I think it's unlikely that their vision of "5-year plan" is anything like as detailed or precise as you and others have suggested it is. This is another thing I've seen before. People assuming this is some detailed plan, when it's usually vague-as-hell and barely worthy of the name "plan". And talking about it isn't "lying" it's "hype", which is something related but fundamentally different.More likely they had and I say had some vague ideas as to where they were going over the next 5 years. More precise ones for the next year or two.But it's actively silly, imho, to believe that a complete change-out of the people with the most direct influence on D&D is going to result in absolutely no major changes from anything that even was planned. Yet that's exactly what you suggested! That these guys would just be caretakers who'd follow some established plan. To me, at least, that's a laughable idea, based on how these things have gone down historically.Yup, which is why I said I don't think we'll see any real evidence re: the direction of the new people until at least late 2026.</blockquote>

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