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It's apparently corroborated by Margaret Weis on the Dragonlance forums.  Of course, it'll undoubtedly spend a year or three in development hell, but it was inevitable.

Oct 15, 2011 -- 5:34PM, Tenzhi wrote:

It's apparently corroborated by Margaret Weis on the Dragonlance forums.  Of course, it'll undoubtedly spend a year or three in development hell, but it was inevitable.

Not a reliable source. If it was in production, anyone who knows about it would be under NDA. The friend of a friend of a friend heard it from Monte bit is bull. Monte would have violated that NDA. 

They may be in a pre production stage, but that would probably last about 2 years or so before going into full production for another 2-3 years, which would put us at 8 years. That was the lifetime of the previous edition. 

i doubt that with all the recent expendatures in support for 4e (CB, encounters seasons, lair assault) i do not think that 5e is coming around anytime soon, it will one day come out and the game will evolve as always, which is not a bad thing.

However, i hear whispers of 4e books that they plan to release in 2013 and i am aware of the 3rd lair assault having been playtested so even if it is in pre production it is still a ways off because it would make no sense to spend the money on these without giving the book and DDI product a sufficient amount of time to generate revenue.

if WOtC confirmed a single rumor of 5e preproduction (even if its 5 years off) they will devalue 4th edition, diehard 4e fans will boycott the last new 4e books, casual players will save their money for the release of 5e and the company will have to drop everything in a mad dash to get a buyable product on the shelves and no doubt a company like paizo will make a 4e version of pathfinder to cash in on the diehards. 

every company needs to know what will be on the shelves in 5 years, 10 years and 20 years, and no doubt they have plans for 5th or even 6th editon,

if you have been reading formerly mike mearls' currently monte cooks tuesday column you will see a trend as they have discussed the past, present and future of the game of D&D and table top RPGs in general. they have added a comment area where we can go and talk about the idea and a poll to see what is good bad or ugly, i feel that this is pre market research for what they will do in 5e, like a rough sketch of what they need to start working on this anicdotal evidance is useful to them as it may present a point of view they have not thought of before and i am glad that they at least have an ear out there. 

the sky is not falling yet, but even if it does and they cancel all of that stuff and announce 5e tomarrow, ill probably take a good look and see what we got, it will be a hot topic of conversation i know that much!  

This seems to be an interesting bit of news.

Personally, i view 5th Ed as a very positive thing. It's a chance to repair a divided community and to take the good bits of 4th and 3rd, stick them together and get something awesome.