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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BASHMAN" data-source="post: 3875725" data-attributes="member: 8277">Well, I agree that they announced it too soon...  but for totally different reasons.  As soon as 4e was announced, I was rabid for any crunch information about the game.  All that any playtest reports have told us, however is fluff because "its too early".  Now, I remember when 3e was coming out, there was crunch-galore-- nearly entire srd printed as "black pages" here on this very site (or the site the pre-dated this one-- Eric Noah's).  Part of my problem (my impatience) is that when I found out about 3rd edition, I was able to get solid info/updates all the time on it.  I was reading lists of feats, classes, races, etc-- making characters, long before 3e ever came out.  Anything that wasn't made yet I was filling in with my own "educated guesses".  When 4e was announced, I made the same assumption-- that there'd be this flood of open-source information that Wizards doesn't care if playtesters leak.  I was wrong on that-- but also I think wrong to assume that so much info would be coming so fast.  I think in January, after the preview books (preview of art & fluff of 4e not mechanics) we'll see more solid mechanical info being shared.  In retrospect, I would have been happier had they waited to announce 4e until they were ready to start sharing this info.  Then I could have continued to enjoy my 3.5 game in blissful ignorance.  Pining for 4e, 3.5 seems to have lost its appeal to me...</blockquote>

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