If WotC don't release something, then I'd be interested in a sensible 4e clone that utilizes all the errata and cuts down on some of the glut, like feats and redundant powers, but still being compatible with all the 4e stuff that is already available.
On a similar tangent, with Mike Mearls giving interviews left and right about 5e, I wish someone would ask him straight-up what WotC plan to do with the DDI tools... It sucks that 4e fans are left hanging while it was the DDI subscribers who really kept the company afloat while they were forging the 5e ruleset.
Honestly, how is their dismissive attitude any different from when WotC ignored the 3.5 fans when 4e was released? I'm not hating on 5e, but also not feeling WotC is giving the love to 4e, which is still a viable game.
Kept the company afloat? DDI subscriptions are insignificant next to Mtg's revenues, and as I understand it, we have no idea how many people were subscribed.
All of that said, Mearls stated that as long as there's enough DDI subscribers they'll keep the tools up.
PDFs: extremely likely. In print: possibly. With errata: not bloody likely.Obviously 4e is done being developed, but do you think there is any chance of an errata'd edition being released sometime, even as pdfs? I don't know if WOTC is planning on continuing their release of 'classic' rules and supplements, so tis could be a moot question.
And that help's the D&D department how? They are completely separate from MtG. If the D&D department would no longer be able to cover its expenses it would be shut down, regardless how successful MtG is.Kept the company afloat? DDI subscriptions are insignificant next to Mtg's revenues, and as I understand it, we have no idea how many people were subscribed.
I wonder if, some time after 5E is released (MM and DMG are still to come, don't forget), we might see a brief resurgence of interest in 4E from a small section of the fanbase?
For all of its faults, both legitimate and perceived, 4E handled a lot of the balance problems of all the pre-4E editions, and the utterly boring combat of AD&D, both of which are back in what we have seen of 5E so far. Maybe there will be a mini-renaissance?
(Yeah, yeah; this is just wishful thinking on my part. )
I think what we're likely to see before 10 years have passed are add-on optional systems that make 5e feel like 4e, at least as far as the combat on a grid and the powers framework goes. Probably not soon, but eventually.
If WotC don't release something, then I'd be interested in a sensible 4e clone that utilizes all the errata and cuts down on some of the glut, like feats and redundant powers, but still being compatible with all the 4e stuff that is already available.
On a similar tangent, with Mike Mearls giving interviews left and right about 5e, I wish someone would ask him straight-up what WotC plan to do with the DDI tools...
It sucks that 4e fans are left hanging while it was the DDI subscribers who really kept the company afloat while they were forging the 5e ruleset.