According to the "Future of D&D" presentation at GenCon, WotC expect the playtest phase of 5e development to take two years. If we assume it started just after Monte Cook rejoined the company (just after GenCon last year), but also assume they'll need some time to finish things off after the end of the playtest, that probably means 5e will be released some time in summer 2014, probably just before GenCon that year. Which very neatly ties in with the 40th Anniversary celebrations for that year.
It also means that there's a real good chance I should be able to get Nutshell up and into a form that I'm basically happy with in that time. That's my goal, anyway. Not that I'm competing with WotC in any sense (hah!), but that there seems little point in doing all that work if it were to be rendered moot by 5e anyway... but if I can at least get the kernel going in time, then that won't be the case.
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