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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jester David" data-source="post: 7712169" data-attributes="member: 37579">Maybe.It does seem to be more-or-less a year. We know that Out of the Abyss took just under a year since talks began at the prior GenCon. But they had the basics of the story planned. However, from the official podcast, we know Perkins wrote Curse of Strahd over Christmas break just before its release, and SKT a few months after that (but he said the latter was grueling). But I admit that they likely had some art and such in the works prior, and some planning/ outlining. Still, this product should have been quicker since all the maps were preplanned and just needed to be redrawn, and a huge chunk was already done. With Dead In Thay, a quarter of the book just needed a light editing pass. I imagine a lot of posters (myself including) were expecting the Pendleton Ward adventure for the spring, since he was at WotC last April. But given the above fact that Perkins was burning through vacation time to do his job in 2016 *and* spent so much of the summer travelling and working on shows *and* was involved in Volo's Guide to Monsters, I wonder if he just didn't have the time for the originally planned adventure for the spring. And WotC realized that in the middle of 2016 and did this instead, as a product they could bang out in under a year. That's my conspiracy theory anyway...Even if that's totally wrong and they were always planning TftYP for the spring, they would have begun tentative work on that book in spring 2016. Unless all details of Goodman Games deal was hammered out in less than six months, there had to have been some planning overlap between the two projects. (Although, this does explain the Christmas open call for 5e designers from Goodman Games around Christmas time.)WotC has a long history of partnering with Goodman Games/ Necromancer Games. As seen by the unique license they signed to update classic monsters early in 3e. So they still choose to continue with a product that overlapped heavily with a planned licensed product. Which feels odd. The niche TftYP fills is less needed with the Goodman Games products.Unless it was bailing out an overworked Perkins. In which case it's pretty forgivable...</blockquote>

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