D&D 4E Things That Tiped Off 4e...

[Scribble]

Hotel keycards with a bunch of dice pictured, all showing "4", that made it pretty hard to stay in denial.

Did they really do that??? That's awesome!

 

[Beckett]

Did they really do that??? That's awesome!

Yup. On my way out, I grabbed a stack to pass out to my players; they weren't going to be used by the hotel after that, so I figured they made cheap (free) little mementos.

 

[Thornir Alekeg]

Time: We won't see a new edition in the next five years. After that, start to get nervous. At about year 7 or 8, put it in your sig (wish I had).

I think the timing for the next edition will depend greatly upon the success of D&D Insider. If they get a good number of subscribers to the point where they have a solid, steady revenue stream, you may see a longer time to the next edition.

 

[Nyaricus]

Anyone remember that blog of Mike Mearls where he was talking about wizards which could never run out of spells? I know someone made a thread here on ENW and went on for ~10 pages. That got me thinking.

Pius with experimental books like they've been putting out, 4e was bound to rear it's head sometime or another.

 

[Psion]

Mearls joining WotC was probably my FIRST tickle of 4e suspicion

Mearls getting hires and then his name appearing on precious few products was one indicator.

But the biggest indicator to me was all the public talk about Digital Initiative. I'd long suspected that DI would be 4e. I thought it might not actually carry the title 4e, just be a back-handed way of making 4e. But it appears I was wrong on that detail.

 

[BryonD]

A couple weeks ago the gargantuan Orcus mini was discussed. A lot of people expressed confusion because Orcus is not gargantuan (in 3X). Something I read somewhere suggested that he is in 4E.

So that was a tip. Albiet it was a tip that was pretty much unreadable without the inside knowledge.

 

[tvknight415]

My first hint was the Gen Con RPGA judge schedule. Not scheduling any length-sensetive events (D&D Open, LG Special) in slots 2 & 3 because of some sort of "meeting" was a pretty obvious clue that an announcement was coming.

 

[cignus_pfaccari]

The first time I really began to take notice and not dismiss things as rumormongering was on the 2008 catalog release. Combined with the second half of 2007 being fairly sparse, that made me wonder.

The other stuff I noticed (DI, Mearls' hiring) wasn't really an indicator in my book. At least, not at detection values.

Brad