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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Crazy Jerome" data-source="post: 5701038" data-attributes="member: 54877">My wild guess, with possibly only a virtue of being different than other guesses thus far: We get a small interim set of products to revise interest, specifically designed to stretch out the launch of 5E until 2014, at the earliest. This is also designed to let DDI catch up with backlog of very much needed improvements before new demands are placed on it. Hmm, Monte Cook really liked the 1E Unearthed Arcana. He liked it so much that he got permission to use a variation on the name and do a variant of 3E--which was different than the original, but close enough to be used in play alongside the original. Small innovations within a box. Not the first or last time he did that, either. So we get several 4E Unearthed Arcana type products. Some of them will contain things like the 1E cavalier and the Arcana Unearthed Magister, which some gamers will love and others will hate. They will be irritatingly broken in certain circumstances, but so flavorful that people will take them and avoid the circumstances. They will mostly work with DDI, but you'll have to do a few things on paper to really make them shine. A lot of the stuff in these products will get toned down/refined/polished/refluffed for the later 5E version.</blockquote>