Recent content by Dwarfling

I watched the PAX East Q&A session about D&D Next development, and the explanation of the player's ability to create characters with their own chosen level of complexity and play the same game was very interesting. However I could not help but think this is already sort of the way it is now with...

I think that was just an idea for his next campaign - he even says that he'll have to change it because he decided to use the Raven Queen towards the end of his current campaign. Regarding his involvement in 5E design, I think he'll probably have a lot more to do with the post-release stuff...

For the same reason that people still play 1E, 2E, 3E, 3.5, et al - because the games are fun. Even if WotC stops supporting it immediately upon 5E's release, you don't need their support to run games or come up with new ones. There are also hundreds, if not thousands, of adventures, campaigns...