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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ceiling90" data-source="post: 5602876" data-attributes="member: 82284">What's interesting about the playtest part, is that if you look at the original books in 4e, the PHB, DMG, and MM; there's a massive list of playtesters.Paizo did their open alpha and beta because they simply can't pay testing to be done in house, and under seal of NDA. It's also hard to say which is ultimately better, having the anonymous and very opinionated internet hordes tearing your game apart, or having a very small, but very well chosen subset for testing of ideas and game play. Both have very good advantages and very bad disadvantages. As for a new edition? Who knows. Maybe the announcement is the concession that essentials is pretty much 4.5. Since they decided to re-work the design paradigms and the new numbers, they're only going that direction. They're effectively going to drop anything before hand, and re-write anything that needs to fit into the new design paradigm. Kinda like they're doing now. Only, they're going to explicitly say that while the old PHB's are still legal and workable in the current rules, they will re-release most of the classes in the Essential Paradigm.Or not. A new full edition in less than 4 years? Isn't that way too soon?</blockquote>