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WotC James Wyatt is on the Dungeons & Dragons Team Again


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Seems like a vocal minority of folks enjoy reading the tea leaves for a 6E, when from a financial standpoint it would seem insane to kill the golden goose 5E when it hasn't yet peaked in sales.
Agreed. I have said this here before, but the idea of going through the whole cycle of "when-will-they-update-X-in-6th-edition" for years instead of new storylines, new expansions, and even entirely new games form Wizards would be quite the downer for me. The game is great...develop it now in new frontiers where D&D has never gone before.
 

wotc has something big cooking if they are moving more designer in to place, if not 6e then it will be something else.

When James Wyatt moved to the MtG (and I'm looking at the work he did here), how many folks thought "Oh, this means some big changes to Magic the Gathering are coming!"

People move around, it doesn't mean much when there is almost no other indications a 6E is coming.
 



Do we even know what James was working on for MtG?
Yes, he was on the world building team, his 9-5 was making Settings for the card game and writing the text for the Art of Magic the Gathering books. Those books were excellent, and Wyatt's mandate was to make the text serve as system-neutral campaign setting books. He was still DMing D&D in his downtime, and to avoid burning out on worldbuilding, he simply set his home games in the Magic Setting he was working on, and got permission to prettify his DM notes and put them up for free, and that is what started up the Magic/D&D collaboration.
 


Exactly right—but from a nonfinancial standpoint there are a couple of reasons to go ahead and create a new (or revised) edition:

1) you think the game could be improved mechanically in a way that would enhance players' experiences without alienating other players or pissing them off about having to replace already-purchased products;

2) you need to purge "problematic" elements from the game, whether thematic or mechanical.

(If you want to be more precise, you can replace "nonfinancial" with "less directly financial" in my opening sentence.)

Considering most people here seem to disagree on what #1 would actually mean, and that #2 is seemingly already being addressed (changes in Tasha's, removal of alignment), I think they'll need much more rules glut before a 6E is really on the table.
 

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