D&D (2024) So IS it a new edition?

[Lakesidefantasy]

What's your basis for that claim? I sell D&D books for a living, and I wasn't aware that Monsters of the Multiverse sold particularly poorly, as you say. Is it just that you didn't buy it? That's okay, but I don't think you can extrapolate much from it.

I am admittedly ignorant on sales numbers, thus my particular choice of words. But you may have some numbers you could share given that your in the business.

 

[Lakesidefantasy]

Ok do you have anything to go on for this, other than feels?

I am admittedly ignorant on sales numbers, thus my particular choice of words.

 

[R_J_K75]

...I doubt we'll ever see a Players Handbook/Dungeon Masters Guide/Monster Manual set of three books ever again.

I think we will. I don't think that 5E can sustain the game forever with just updates, and eventually it'll get old and sales will drop off. I think that eventually the game will need a new edition.

 

[Minigiant]

I think we will. I don't think that 5E can sustain the game forever with just updates, and eventually it'll get old and sales will drop off. I think that eventually the game will need a new edition.

We saw the drafts.

WOTC wanted more but couldn't get the new ideas to be backward compatible.

When 5e get old and tired, Generic Arcane/Divine/Primal/Psion spell list, Core Maneuvers, Half Caster Warlocks will return.

But not this year.

 

[mamba]

When 5e get old and tired, Generic Arcane/Divine/Primal/Psion spell list, Core Maneuvers, Half Caster Warlocks will return.

But not this year.

the sooner, the better, all the good ideas were cut and instead we got a pile of tweaks

 

[R_J_K75]

When 5e get old and tired, Generic Arcane/Divine/Primal/Psion spell list, Core Maneuvers, Half Caster Warlocks will return.

I hope not.

By the time a new edition rolls around there will probably be enough employee turnover at WotC that the design philosophies they have now will be completely different then. Just my opinion.

 

[Maxperson]

Not really.

See 1e, 2e, and 3e were very simple rulesets. So any change was relatively a BIG thing.

You do realize that 5e is the simplest ruleset, right? FAR simpler than 3e was.

 

[Maxperson]

I don't know how you can call 3e a "very simple ruleset" - then again, I'm not sure that I agree with that description for 1e or 2e either, for that matter.

Yeah. That one threw me a bit as well.

 

[Oofta]

I feel like you're responding to a statement I didn't make.

So you didn't say "I don't expect 5.5e to last very long"? Because I could have sworn you said "as long as 3.0e" which was 3 years.

Nobody can predict the future but the game is still going strong and the 2024 revision isn't a major upheaval. It was due for a bit of a revision after a decade. Will this iteration last another 10 years? I think that's more likely than the game collapsing and there never being another update.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Not saying the 4E combat roles explicitly doesn't mean that designers aren't using them internally. I would bet they are, in fact.