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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Markn" data-source="post: 5321751" data-attributes="member: 21827">Fact - WotC employees work on books about a year in advance.Fact - There are some design changes that happen after most of the book is complete, but not by much.  Major additions/changes that are needed for CB or MB should be recognized long before the "data due date" comes up.Fact - Once a book goes to the printers, its set in stone.  If I'm not mistaken this is about 2-3 months in advance.  WotC should be working with that schedule.  In other words, they should be working on data input/CB & MB redesigns about 2 months in advance.  Therefore, if they fail to meet their own personal deadline of 2 months prior to release, they should still have 2 months to resolve any issues and still publish the content on time.   This is my opinion, but would make for a much more successful model than they currently have.Now for some speculation.  I suspect that WorC is focusing on some new major releases which is taking a majority of their time - and possibly has been for a while now.  Near Gencon we heard that they are getting close to making some big announcements.  I suspect it might be a completely new version of both the CB and the MB (which may include some extra tools).  Its possible that I am wrong but this is my gut feeling at the moment.  Its possible that the new software is taking longer than expected OR they have some bugs that need to be worked out, and therefore are behind the 8-ball on support of this version since they were anticipating the release of the other one by now.Anyways, carry on with your day.  This is my .02 gp. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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