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<blockquote data-quote="Jester David" data-source="post: 6614258" data-attributes="member: 37579">The Elemental Evil Adventurer's Handbook is just an example of why WotC is being quiet. People were PISSED. This was a book people knew nothing about except its name and still it became this grand expected product. WotC used to announce products well in advance. This ended in 2011 after D&amp;D Essentials landed with a *thud* and the head of D&amp;D resigned/was fired. This led to The Great Cancelling where one product was delayed and five others cancelled. Parts of one ended up on DDI, parts of another ended up as playtest articles (whose finished versions were never released). And since then, WotC has really played things close to the chest. The Adventurer's Handbook was just an excellent reminder of WHY it's beneficial to do so. For example, the PHB was supposed to be out in July with the Starter Set. But they had to delayed it a month. We didn't know at the time because it hadn't been announced. But imagine if we'd been expecting the PHB in July for months and months and they announced the delay in May. Yikes!This would require an OGL. If we were going to get one, you think we'd have seen it by now.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jester David, post: 6614258, member: 37579"] The Elemental Evil [I]Adventurer's Handbook[/I] is just an example of why WotC is being quiet. People were PISSED. This was a book people knew nothing about except its name and still it became this grand expected product. WotC used to announce products well in advance. This ended in 2011 after D&D Essentials landed with a *thud* and the head of D&D resigned/was fired. This led to The Great Cancelling where one product was delayed and five others cancelled. Parts of one ended up on DDI, parts of another ended up as playtest articles (whose finished versions were never released). And since then, WotC has really played things close to the chest. The [I]Adventurer's Handbook[/I] was just an excellent reminder of WHY it's beneficial to do so. For example, the PHB was supposed to be out in July with the Starter Set. But they had to delayed it a month. We didn't know at the time because it hadn't been announced. But imagine if we'd been expecting the PHB in July for months and months and they announced the delay in May. Yikes! This would require an OGL. If we were going to get one, you think we'd have seen it by now. [/QUOTE]

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