D&D 5E Have You Started Planning How You Will End 5e Yet?

[Retreater]

Every time a new edition is announced, I start to consider if there is "one last thing" to do with the current one - a published adventure I didn't get to run, a campaign setting I didn't get to use, etc.
In 3.5e it was a high level romp in Maure Castle.
In 4e it was Scales of War.
I have one 5e game that is likely to end with Dead in Thay.
The other one - which started with Ghosts of Saltmarsh and then went way off course with Isle of Dread (OAR) ... I think that group wants to do Curse of Strahd next. I believe that would be a suitable ending for 5e.
I know 5.5 is theoretically going to be compatible, but if I think back to 3.0/3.5 or 3.5/Pathfinder - we never went back to use the old books.
What about you? Are you planning for the end of 5e yet? We have like 1.5 years to finish up our current campaigns and run what might be the last big campaign.

 

[Shiroiken]

More than likely, once the playtest is complete I'm going to start a new campaign based on what I liked about the playtest. This will then be converted once the revised rulebooks come out. We did the same thing with D&D Next to 5E, and it worked quite well.

 

[delericho]

My current campaign is almost certainly my last with the current version of the rulebooks. Whether it is my last ever, or if I buy the new books and carry on, remains to be seen.

That said, I'm not in the habit of having a planned "last campaign" - 2nd Ed ended with a partial run through of "The Shattered Circle" that we abandoned when 3e released; 3.5e was released while we were doing other things so the transition was 'natural', and the same with the move to 5e. I largely skipped 4e.

And, of course, it remains to be seen whether the 2024 books represent a new edition. My gut feeling is that my group will consider it a de facto new edition, in that we'll take the opportunity to clean the slate and start afresh, but we'll see.

 

[UngainlyTitan]

Not sure that my main group will move on. Currently playing a 30-year-old campaign that started in Palladium rules year ago and continued in various editions of D&D in fits and starts since as time and circumstance allowed.
I ran a campaign to twentieth level that I would like to revisit, not sure I would shift the rules. But I like the direction the rules are going in. Not sure how my main groups feels about changing rules.

 

[DND_Reborn]

What about you? Are you planning for the end of 5e yet?

I have been for the last couple years, but in NO WAY to move on to 5.5 or whatever it ends up being.

I've never been a fan of WotC's design or the direction it has taken D&D (admittedly there are some things I thought was good, but it is probably less than 5% of it all...). I've only been playing 5E because the group I formed 4 years ago already had those books and wanted to try it. I've spent all that time since tweaking and such, never really satisfied with it.

Fortunately, I have enjoyed my games, but that is because I've enjoyed the time spent with friends and the adventures we've shared, not because it was 5E.

I recently started writing my own D&D (finally taking the advice of many to "Why don't you just write you own game?" ).

 

[phuong]

I am done for now.
I am waiting for 6e or Pathfinder 3 or DnD_Reborns version.
I think "one D&D" is a huge mistake.
Sure they can maintain 5e with some changes, but they should also be working on 6e, and incompatible, reinvented version with new mechanics. The thought that you can't make a better game is ridiculous.
Rebuy all the books just so they can add a feat and a class and make superficial changes? No.

 

[dave2008]

What about you? Are you planning for the end of 5e yet? We have like 1.5 years to finish up our current campaigns and run what might be the last big campaign.

I will continue with one 5e as I am now. I don't see enough difference between what we are playing now and what will come in '24 to consider it the end of 5e. We are starting a new campaign in the next 6 months* with some new house rules and I am 100% certain we will continue with those house rules into '24 5e. Might we grab some ideas from '24, sure we do that all the time. Will I use the new monsters from the '24 MM, probably. It is not changing our game, from what I have seen so far, if we adopt '24 or not. I expect it to be a seamless transition for us.

*To clarify, our current campaign started with 5e in 2014 and, like that one, I expect the new one to take 8+/- years. So we will be well into '24 5e before we finish.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Well, I've sworn off DMing after the current campaign, which should end in a couple of months, so it won't be up to me. I only came back to D&D because I like the 5e rules. Whilst I'm happy enough with the direction of OneD&D, I'm not budgeting for new rules. The big drawback of D&D remains the trite fantasy genre, so I will probably go back to science fiction RPGs for the next couple of editions.

 

[dave2008]

..., so I will probably go back to science fiction RPGs for the next couple of editions.

Well that could be a long wait then!

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Well that could be a long wait then!

Well I pretty much stopped playing D&D from the end of 1st edition to 5e, so that's nothing new.