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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Osgood" data-source="post: 9208440" data-attributes="member: 32792">Of course they’ve been working on all these books for a long time, and there’s a whole lot that can be worked on regardless of the play test — creating a character, using ability scores, equipment. Plus much of the play testing has been more or less done for a long time: they haven’t revisited species and backgrounds for like a year, the rules glossary has been pretty muc fixed since last summer, only a handful of feats have been put up first feedback since the first few packets, and percentage-wise most spells aren’t being tested. They are down to a handful of classes/subclasses being tested… so, I think it’s vey doable to have the PH in stores by May. They’ve already brought up a staggered release schedule, so I’ll bet the MM will release a couple of months after. I doubt they play test anything from that, because they’ve already rolled out those changes with Monsters of the Multiverse. They’ve probably been number crunching and designing those for months already. The DMG will be last because they do have some things to play test, but a whole lot of it is just advice, info, and tables that they are already working on. I’d guess 2, maybe 3 months after the MM is released, but it could run longer if Bastions or whatever else they test needs more iterations than they planned for.I‘d guess the dates they had are reasonably firm, but they didn’t want to put them out yet, just in case things with up being a few weeks off. But who knows, the 21st could have been the Sage for D&D Beyond, and print books will be a month later and someone mixed it up, or it could be the nefarious OGL gremlins trying to stir the pot again in their never ending quest to get people mad at WotC so they will rage quit.</blockquote>

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