D&D 4E Posting 4E Questions for 4E Play-Tests?

[WhimsyTheFae]

I doubt it, but even if it was the case, I wouldn't label it as "insidious".

 

[Drawmack]

Reviewing postings, every year in preperation for GenCon we get those guessing this is the year WotC will announce the next edition of DnD. Eventually they'll be right and then we'll never hear the end of it for not believing them.

 

[Le Noir Faineant]

Okay, well, I confess it:

It's me. Me and the poster under the name of Arashi Ravenblade (an account shared by James Jacobs, Ari Marmell and Carl Sargent) are the current developers of 4e.

Thing is, it will not only be announced at D&D Experience, we will have the five core books ready for immediate sale, as a special surprise to the ConGoers!

Everyone who completes the LGCore-Adventure "Eric's Tears or the Fall of Castle Pa'izo" will get the fourth core book (Skills) for free.

 

[Wulf Ratbane]

Reviewing postings, every year in preperation for GenCon we get those guessing this is the year WotC will announce the next edition of DnD. Eventually they'll be right and then we'll never hear the end of it for not believing them.

They're like televangelists predicting the end of the world.

Except, of course, the televangelists won't really get to gloat much.

Which makes the 4e demagogues just that much smarter than the televangelists.

So, you know, they got that goin for em.

 

[airwalkrr]

Giving people the task to subersively start 4e threads so that WotC can gather information, no I can't see that.

That is not what I was suggesting. I was merely suggesting that perhaps play-testers are trying to furtively gather feedback from others not involved in the play-test by creating the occassionl 4e thread.

 

[Piratecat]

Considering the glut of 4e threads, we're going to be a bit strict about where they belong. As this is a thread about the threads, off to Meta!

 

[Crothian]

That is not what I was suggesting. I was merely suggesting that perhaps play-testers are trying to furtively gather feedback from others not involved in the play-test by creating the occassionl 4e thread.

Nope, that's not what is happening.

 

[Maggan]

That is not what I was suggesting. I was merely suggesting that perhaps play-testers are trying to furtively gather feedback from others not involved in the play-test by creating the occassionl 4e thread.

Ah, my mistake.

I still think it highly unlikely that WotC instituted a super secret 4e playtest program, probably regulated by NDAs covering all manner of restrictions, only to then recruit bunch of untrustworthy testers who can't stay off the messageboards trolling for under cover responses to things included in the test.

If people were untrustworthy enough to play the boards for reactions, that play test program would be in even more serious trouble, since I find it improbable that such testers would manage to keep quiet about the entire program.

/M

 

[Umbran]

That is not what I was suggesting. I was merely suggesting that perhaps play-testers are trying to furtively gather feedback from others not involved in the play-test by creating the occassionl 4e thread.

That isn't the playtester's job, though. They are supposed to gather feedback from playing. Why would they risk violating their NDA to gather information that they aren't supposed to gather?

I would find a "WotC shills are out there gathering information" plot at least plausible. But a, "Playtesters going out of their way to gather information for which they don't even have a proper submission channel," plot sounds less than reasonable.

 

[Le Noir Faineant]

I apologize to Arashi, btw. I used his name just because he is one of those who are most suspicious about a possible 4e.