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<blockquote data-quote="Jer" data-source="post: 3787705" data-attributes="member: 19857">One thing that I remember from the 3e cycle is that the information generally came out in one big monthly chunk - once a month we'd get a two page &quot;countdown to 3e&quot; article in Dragon and that was, IIRC, where most of our information about the new edition came from.&nbsp; Also, most of the information we got was mechanical in nature, again IIRC, which was a big deal because the system moved from being AD&amp;D to being d20 - little bits of information like &quot;classes have a unified XP table&quot; or &quot;attributes have a single bonus table&quot; or &quot;no distinction between thief skills and nonweapon proficiencies&quot; or &quot;only 3 saving throws&quot; or &quot;AC goes up instead of down now&quot; were big, big bits of news that people chawed on and contemplated for days on end (partly because they were big changes, and partly because we only got our info about once a month or so).Now we're getting a constant trickle of information, the changes aren't nearly as big, and, on top of everything else, there are actual products out there that the Wizards guys can say &quot;go look at this - we're doing something like that&quot;.&nbsp; So when they say that Star Wars Saga or Book of Nine Swords or Monster Manual V are all versions of the 4e rules at previous iterations of the dev cycle, we're getting more information than we think.&nbsp; It's just that it's old news because we've already looked at it and know what's in it and you can only speculate about how much will change for the actual 4e release for so long before the thread degenerates into a rant about how awful the changes will be <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jer, post: 3787705, member: 19857"] One thing that I remember from the 3e cycle is that the information generally came out in one big monthly chunk - once a month we'd get a two page "countdown to 3e" article in Dragon and that was, IIRC, where most of our information about the new edition came from. Also, most of the information we got was mechanical in nature, again IIRC, which was a big deal because the system moved from being AD&D to being d20 - little bits of information like "classes have a unified XP table" or "attributes have a single bonus table" or "no distinction between thief skills and nonweapon proficiencies" or "only 3 saving throws" or "AC goes up instead of down now" were big, big bits of news that people chawed on and contemplated for days on end (partly because they were big changes, and partly because we only got our info about once a month or so). Now we're getting a constant trickle of information, the changes aren't nearly as big, and, on top of everything else, there are actual products out there that the Wizards guys can say "go look at this - we're doing something like that". So when they say that Star Wars Saga or Book of Nine Swords or Monster Manual V are all versions of the 4e rules at previous iterations of the dev cycle, we're getting more information than we think. It's just that it's old news because we've already looked at it and know what's in it and you can only speculate about how much will change for the actual 4e release for so long before the thread degenerates into a rant about how awful the changes will be :) [/QUOTE]

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