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<blockquote data-quote="Lord_Blacksteel" data-source="post: 7993668" data-attributes="member: 53082">Errr... no. Going back to 2E there was a good-sized preview &quot;brochure&quot; in a Dragon prior to the release - I still have it around here somewhere - that discussed the changes that were coming and showed the new covers etc. 3e was discussed/revealed in a yearlong series of articles in Dragon leading up to release. Many of them were ferociously discussed right here on the earliest version of this very site - &quot;Eric Noah's Third Edition News&quot;4th was revealed in a series of 3 books - that you had to buy separately - in the last few months before release. So no, they typically announce a new edition a year or less prior to releasing it. 5th was an outlier from that with two years or so of playtesting with &quot;Next&quot;. But they do not announce that they are working on another new edition when they release a new edition. That would certainly damage sales, and the idea is that you're going to be working on -this- edition for years. Videogames may work that way, but TTRPGs typically do not.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lord_Blacksteel, post: 7993668, member: 53082"] Errr... no. Going back to 2E there was a good-sized preview "brochure" in a Dragon prior to the release - I still have it around here somewhere - that discussed the changes that were coming and showed the new covers etc. 3e was discussed/revealed in a yearlong series of articles in Dragon leading up to release. Many of them were ferociously discussed right here on the earliest version of this very site - "Eric Noah's Third Edition News" 4th was revealed in a series of 3 books - that you had to buy separately - in the last few months before release. So no, they typically announce a new edition a year or less prior to releasing it. 5th was an outlier from that with two years or so of playtesting with "Next". But they do not announce that they are working on another new edition when they release a new edition. That would certainly damage sales, and the idea is that you're going to be working on -this- edition for years. Videogames may work that way, but TTRPGs typically do not. [/QUOTE]

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