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Message: <blockquote data-quote="M.L. Martin" data-source="post: 5837268" data-attributes="member: 4086">3E was a GenCon announcement for release at next GenCon, but the history of information release is skewed by the fact that a few playtesters on Usenet treated the announcement as undoing the NDA for a while, and were being quite free with the information. Still, solid tidbits on mechanics--if nothing extensive--were released in Dragon in September and October, and on a continual stream until release, along with other sources.  4E was announced at GenCon for release the next May, and a few mechanical tidbits were released there, more as the year went on, and we started getting real solid concept and design info with the release of the Wizards Presents volumes in December and January.  If the pattern were to hold, we'd be getting a few tidbits now and start to see real solid information around May. However, the impression even at announcement was that while they were fine-tuning details, the games were more or less finished. Right now, I can't shake the impression that 5E is still somewhere around 'throw stuff at the wall and see what sticks' or 'find out what people want D&D to feel like, then try to reverse-engineer the basic game from that'.</blockquote>