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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kenmarable" data-source="post: 3838894" data-attributes="member: 40359">Actually, 2 out of 2 times so far, the rules have been given to publishers early and they haven't been posted on the net. Playtesters are far more of a "security threat" than publishers, because being in a business to business relationship, publishers are orders of magnitude more likely to be slammed by WotC for NDA violation than playtesters are. Publishers are in it as a business to make money. There's nothing in there that would motivate them to risk it all to post the documents on the internet.Besides, as I said above, in 2 out of 2 editions, publishers haven't leaked details. In 2 out of 2, playtesters have. (Although I guess you could argue that it was really publishers lying about being paytesters.) But the incentives for publishers to not violate their NDA are much higher than it is for a playtester where the likely punishment for an NDA violation - depending on how serious it is - is most likely just being banned from future playtesting. For a publisher, being caught violating the NDA could get WotC on your back and pretty much sink the chances of ever having a business.</blockquote>