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#1 tehsquirrely Aug 05, 2009 6:44:37	Crazy time. So after reading the article "hot hot days of summer" in dragon mag Mr. Bill Slavicsek posted (in the form of a black bar) the next campaing setting. Some think this will be Dark Sun, some Dragon Lance. But I'm here to tell you both are wrong. Consider the following. Dark Sun is only 8 characters long, and Dragon Lance is only 12 characters long however the black bar in the article is clearly 16, maybe 17 if you stretch it, characters long when you compare it's size relatively to the rest of the article. So what could the next setting be? It has to be 16 characters long, if we are to assume the article has the correct length of the setting, this leaves many popular settings out. It can't be Greyhawk, Plane Scape, Spell Jammer, or even Ravenloft. If you have any information about 16 character long I would thank you for posting, and I'm sure the community will.
#2 wrecan Aug 05, 2009 6:49:04	"Dragonlance 4e" "Dark Sun 4th Age"
#3 tehsquirrely Aug 05, 2009 6:51:58	"Dragonlance 4e" "Dark Sun 4th Age" If those didn't break the current mold for edition names you might be right. But so far both FR and ebberon are just FR and ebberon, they don't have editions attached. Besides that would be redundant to say its the 4th edition dragonlance 4e book.
#4 wrecan Aug 05, 2009 7:21:46	Except that this was in an editorial. In the editorial, he may have added the "4e" tag even though the eventual product won't. Also, I said Darksun 4th Age, not 4e.
#5 quale1 Aug 05, 2009 7:37:42	From your title it seemed like it would be Dark Matter, and it is better than most these worlds. Show Council of Wyrms
#6 tehsquirrely Aug 05, 2009 9:22:57	Except that this was in an editorial. In the editorial, he may have added the "4e" tag even though the eventual product won't. Also, I said Darksun 4th Age, not 4e. Well in the context of the article putting 4e in the tag seems like it would be even more reduntant, since we all know he's talking about 4e. It is a magazine dedicated to 4e, on the official 4e website, for people paying for the 4e insider experience. Darksun 4th age might work though. Could be onto something there. In any case I'd love if it was darksun.
#7 myrwen_dup Aug 05, 2009 10:26:42	World of Greyhawk ? It WAS the 1980's original title
#8 ranadiel Aug 05, 2009 11:55:09	Show DNAURSK K SRUAND
#9 GMforPowergamers Aug 05, 2009 13:42:42	I said it before I will say it again Yanking Your Chain counting spaces 17...
#10 princemercia Aug 05, 2009 13:50:53	I said it before I will say it again Yanking Your Chain counting spaces 17... Domains of Dread 16 total counting the spaces
#11 daeros_dup Aug 05, 2009 20:16:02	Think it might be possible he just hit the space bar a bunch of times and colored in the empty space black? I suppose its possible he might have counted the exact number of characters, but wouldn't that have spoiled the mystery by being too easy to figure out?
#12 Kalnaur Aug 05, 2009 20:56:31	I would guess it's a heavy dose of gotcha.
#13 greylord Aug 11, 2009 0:19:35	War of the Lance (16 with spaces) Al-qadim Zahkara (16 with spaces) Castle Ravenloft (16 with spaces) Oh dear...what now...
#14 greylord Aug 11, 2009 0:24:00	Dark Sun : Athas (hmmmm....) Or not...
#15 Tharag_Bocc Aug 11, 2009 1:08:27	This thread almost makes me wish I had saved a screen capture of when I first read the article in question. Maybe I was just sleep deprived or otherwise brain-addled, but when I first read it I could have sworn that the censored bits were sets of empty white boxes (□□□□□) rather long black bars (█████). If that was really what I saw, and if the number of blank boxes corresponded to the actual number of characters in the hidden words then I might of had something meaningful to contribute to this thread.
#16 Silver_Blaze Aug 11, 2009 1:12:02	This thread almost makes me wish I had saved a screen capture of when I first read the article in question. Maybe I was just sleep deprived or otherwise brain-addled, but when I first read it I could have sworn that the censored bits were sets of empty white boxes (□□□□□) rather long black bars (█████). If that was really what I saw, and if the number of blank boxes corresponded to the actual number of characters in the hidden words then I might of had something meaningful to contribute to this thread. If you select the black boxes, you can figure out how many letters are in each word. Just click and hold, moving slowly from left to right.
#17 Tharag_Bocc Aug 11, 2009 1:14:47	If you select the black boxes, you can figure out how many letters are in each word. Just click and hold, moving slowly from left to right. Already tried. The black bars are JPGs rather than text, which makes character counting impossible.
#18 Silver_Blaze Aug 11, 2009 1:22:03	Already tried. The black bars are JPGs rather than text, which makes character counting impossible. It still works for me, I will just post the paragraph here with the black boxes replaced with the number of letters. We’ll be flying out to Gen Con in a couple of weeks, and we can’t wait to meet up with all of you while we’re there. We’ve got a full slate of seminars on tap, as well as demos, RPGA events, and other surprises and activities throughout the Best Four Days in Gaming. During the show, I’m going to be revealing a number of secrets, which will then appear here as news items for any D&D Insiders that aren’t at the show. For example, I’m going to reveal that our next campaign setting, following on the heels of Forgotten Realms and Eberron, is going to be (No letters). Then, I might just talk about a special (6) D&D that Mike Mearls and I are designing for release next year. Should I also talk about (5), (4), and (7) of (3)? I guess it depends on what kind of mood I’m in during the seminars. We’ll see … Does that help? I know the letter counts are right because the 7 and 3 are ones I was trying to figure out for a long time.
#19 sleazypickle Aug 11, 2009 4:00:37	This thread almost makes me wish I had saved a screen capture of when I first read the article in question. Maybe I was just sleep deprived or otherwise brain-addled, but when I first read it I could have sworn that the censored bits were sets of empty white boxes (□□□□□) rather long black bars (█████). If that was really what I saw, and if the number of blank boxes corresponded to the actual number of characters in the hidden words then I might of had something meaningful to contribute to this thread. You're not wrong. I checked the site right after the article was posted, and it was empty white boxes.
#20 Tharag_Bocc Aug 11, 2009 4:07:25	You're not wrong. I checked the site right after the article was posted, and it was empty white boxes. Glad to hear I'm not crazy (or at least not in relation to this particular subject). I don't suppose you managed write down the number of boxes at the time?
#21 Silver_Blaze Aug 11, 2009 11:42:58	Glad to hear I'm not crazy (or at least not in relation to this particular subject). I don't suppose you managed write down the number of boxes at the time? Did you skip over my post? I have the words with letter-count in it? :P
#22 Tharag_Bocc Aug 11, 2009 15:55:22	Did you skip over my post? I have the words with letter-count in it? :P No, but I don't understand how you're gathering such data. Notably because when I reveal codes I find that the first black bar (the campaign setting) is a single very wide JPG, though the other black bars seem to be made of multiple narrower boxes.
#23 Silver_Blaze Aug 11, 2009 16:06:22	No, but I don't understand how you're gathering such data. Notably because when I reveal codes I find that the first black bar (the campaign setting) is a single very wide JPG, though the other black bars seem to be made of multiple narrower boxes. The first bar is, and always has been, unable to be deciphered. It would make figuring the campaign setting out to be very easy. Before the black boxes showed up, the article had little white boxes for the letters. I made note of the last two boxes, the seven letter and three letter. When I select the little boxes, they still correspond to my notes. BTW, I am pretty sure the last word that is hidden is the word Tyr.
#24 Tharag_Bocc Aug 11, 2009 16:54:48	The first bar is, and always has been, unable to be deciphered. It would make figuring the campaign setting out to be very easy. Not always. My question in regards to anyone who made note while the censored bits were white boxes instead of black bars still stands in regard to the campaign setting if nothing else, as the number of boxes was countable at the time.
#25 Vilnias_Nastavnik Aug 11, 2009 17:03:01	My guess: the spaces have nothing to do with it, just taking up space until Friday afternoon when he changes it (after the announcement at the noon session). I can wait....waited this long already.