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<blockquote data-quote="Majoru Oakheart" data-source="post: 3871761" data-attributes="member: 5143">I think they announced about when they promised they would...a year in advance(almost).From everything I've read online, playtesting likely continues until the end of December or January.&nbsp; This means that January is likely spent 2 weeks reading through comments, compiling them, figuring out how many of the same concern they have.&nbsp; (Plus, I gather playtesting is in waves.&nbsp; Each month or 2 weeks the playtest groups are told to test one specific thing, the feedback is collected, the rules fixed and another wave is sent out asking everyone to test a new thing or even the same thing that's now been edited)&nbsp; Then the 2nd two weeks in January and possibly the first two weeks in February are spend editing the rules with all their feedback until they have an unedited copy.Which gives them a rough, but &quot;finished&quot; copy of the rules a week in advance of D&amp;D Experience where they run it for the first time.&nbsp; They may discover a final few issues when its run at the convention.&nbsp; So they edit it again with the final changes by mid March.&nbsp; 2 weeks of final editing for spelling and grammar and by the end of March the books are entirely done.&nbsp; Then sent in, maybe a month(2 at the most) before the book is in their hands at the end of April.&nbsp; Giving them a month and a half to distribute copies of the books to retailers before mid-June when they will likely be released.&nbsp; They only really need 2 weeks to distribute and can do that even with a month delay anywhere in the process.I don't know from experience, but I gather that printing is still fairly fast these days.This seems a likely timeline to me,&nbsp; but it is just all guesses.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Majoru Oakheart, post: 3871761, member: 5143"] I think they announced about when they promised they would...a year in advance(almost). From everything I've read online, playtesting likely continues until the end of December or January. This means that January is likely spent 2 weeks reading through comments, compiling them, figuring out how many of the same concern they have. (Plus, I gather playtesting is in waves. Each month or 2 weeks the playtest groups are told to test one specific thing, the feedback is collected, the rules fixed and another wave is sent out asking everyone to test a new thing or even the same thing that's now been edited) Then the 2nd two weeks in January and possibly the first two weeks in February are spend editing the rules with all their feedback until they have an unedited copy. Which gives them a rough, but "finished" copy of the rules a week in advance of D&D Experience where they run it for the first time. They may discover a final few issues when its run at the convention. So they edit it again with the final changes by mid March. 2 weeks of final editing for spelling and grammar and by the end of March the books are entirely done. Then sent in, maybe a month(2 at the most) before the book is in their hands at the end of April. Giving them a month and a half to distribute copies of the books to retailers before mid-June when they will likely be released. They only really need 2 weeks to distribute and can do that even with a month delay anywhere in the process. I don't know from experience, but I gather that printing is still fairly fast these days. This seems a likely timeline to me, but it is just all guesses. [/QUOTE]

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