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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Parmandur" data-source="post: 8445924" data-attributes="member: 6780330">So, time of year seems less important than amount of months in lead-up between UA and final product. And yeah, most early year releases have not had UA material in them, the exceptions being Ghosts of Saltmarsh (UA on November 12 in 2018, published May 21 in 2019, six months), Theros (Subclasses in UA on September 18 in 2019, book originally intended for June 2 in 2020 and thus released digitally, nine months), and Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft (US for Subclasses came on August 5 in 2020 for the May 18 2021 release 9 months later, whereas the UA for Lineages was on January 26 in 2021, 4 months before release).But we also need to consider the type of material being tested. The Ravenloft Classes were tested 9 months prior to release, but the Lineages were 4 months. Similarly, with Fizban's we saw the Subclass UA on October 26 2020 precisely one year before release on October 26 202, but the draconic races UA was on April 14th, 6 months before the final release. We have seen Race UA as shortly as two months before release (Ravnica in 2018), and as far out as 16 months (Eberron, July 2018 to the final book in Noivember 2019 though Eberron is probably a major outlier). A May release for these Races seems highly reasonable, all things considered: the interesting thing i that there has been no corresponding Subclasses, which usually have a longer lead time.</blockquote>