Happy Brithday D&D

Today is the day WotC releases the open playtest for the first iteration of the fifth edition of D&D.  In my experience, Dungeons and Dragons follows the inverse Star Trek movie rule - skip the even numbered ones, because the odd numbered ones are much more fun.  I've only vaguely followed the development logs and blogs as they just wound like a bunch of corporate doublespeak and hearsay at this point. 

With little clue as to what to expect, I'm looking forward to sitting down and seeing what they have to offer.  I plan on running a playtest game this coming Monday at the local gamestore gamenight.  It's been a couple of years since I've gamed with adults, and it's not clear how much local interest there is in the new D&D.  We'll see how well that goes over.