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

[GMforPowergamers]

my group was already not that into 5e anymore... so we might just go to other game systems.

So far we are split on like/dislike the 1D&D changes

 

[Umbran]

I don't run just one game - each campaign is chosen separately. So, I'm running Wild Beyond the Witchlight right now. After that, who knows? Maybe Deadlands: Lost Colony. Maybe Spirit of the Century. Maybe something else.

I might come around to another WotC game before the edition switch, maybe not.

 

[Micah Sweet]

No, you are mistaken. You might think of 6e, some people speak about. That is not what they are giving us though.

Not a 6e worthy of the name, no, but a new edition none the less.

 

[UngeheuerLich]

Not a 6e worthy of the name, no, but a new edition none the less.

I think, they should do it exactly as in A5e.
This would be the only way to make it worth the 6e.

 

[CleverNickName]

...it's supposed to end? I've been playing it wrong this entire time, and nobody told me?

We just started a new 5E campaign. If it's anything like the previous one, it'll run for about 2 years and take the characters all the way from 1st level to 20th. Then it will be someone else's turn to be the DM, and I think he's working on a Call of Cthulhu campaign. After his CoC game wraps up, probably in about a year or two, another player will rotate into the DM chair, and he's been talking about running a sci-fi campaign (maybe Esper Genesis or maybe Star Wars, he's not sure yet. When it's my turn again, sometime around Year 2028, I'll probably run another 5E campaign.

 

[Scribe]

The idea struck me today actually. I've not been a Ravenloft guy really but I've been inspired by the forum on just how to write up my own little Domain.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

I'm not planning any particular end, but my groups will need to make a decision whether, if we're mid-campaign come 2024, we convert to 6e then and there or wait until the campaign ends.

I lean towards converting, but considering the players will potentially have more work than I do as a result, I don't want to make a decision unilaterally.

 

[Jfdlsjfd]

I've already ended 5e for a campaign I recently started. In the last one, the players thwarted an effort to change Eberron's cosmogony by linking it a to a whole different set of planes than the usual ones. They, wisely, restored the original ones, based on a Giant device used to unlink Dal Quor. They ended at level 17... it was great. They were very happy of saving the world. In the recap, though, I reminded them that while they, indeed, had talked a few things about the necessity to take care of breaking the link to Xoriat... they had absolutely forgotten about it in the last 5 sessions and, indeed, linked it in the state the giants had left the device. So, Plane of Madness it is.

So the current campaign occurs a few years later, in a world changed in subtle way by the link to the Realm of Madness. Great works of arts have been created, but also a few problem sprang. The world isn't really the same. Which we reflected by switching to Mythras rules (porting the dragonmark powers to it) as a group of dragonmarked heroes assemble to... fix that strange feeling of off-ness they have deep inside them.

It is possible it will last far after 2024, so maybe I won't run 5e ever again, just playing in it.

 

[el-remmen]

It is all D&D to me. . . so I'll continue to run it like I want, making use of rules and assumptions from all the editions as it works for my table at any given time. 5.5 or 6e or One D&D (or whatever you want to call it) is just more grist for my mill.

 

[Clint_L]

Every time a new edition is announced...

A new edition has not been announced. In fact, WotC started the announcement by emphatically stating that they are NOT doing editions any longer, and that it will just be "D&D," based on the 5e rules with incremental change over time. You will still be able to use all your 5e materials because it will still be 5e, in effect.

So I haven't thought about switching anything over because I don't need to. Any more than I worried about wrapping things up in preparation for Tasha's, etc.

Edit: honestly, a lot of these responses indicate that people either are not actually watching/reading WotC's releases, or just refuse to accept their words.