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Oh, jeez, that's an existential threat to them...

Not duplicitous, but a little bit meglomanical.

I wouldn't count on it. Those are core parts of D&D's identity, stable for over 50 years now. Hasbro will never touch that.

Certainly wise to never underestimate the human capacity to make mistakes, but I think that the success of the 2024 rules may have given "stable D&D" the sort of "escape velocity" needed to get away from the gravity of potential major rule revisions.

In terms of sheer possible outcomes in the physical world? Yup, sure, possible. Just seems unlikely, and every product thst gets added to Beyond (now third party optiona added frequently!) and sells well adds just a bit more difficulty to the business case for radical change for change sake.

Right, radical mechanical changes are relative: I expect 2024 will prove more radical in changing the actual rules than future versions of the game. Aesthetic and content changes, with mild adjustments over time.

I've re-read the books, some multiple times, and I still find new things in them.

Yeah, I wouldn't even expect anything as mechanically radical as 2024 again. Look at how many publishers still get mileage out of polishing Basic D&D after 40 years, or Chaosium and Call of Cthulu.

Yeah, I distinctly remember the Big Three discussing their 5 year plan early on, and...they followed through. Them seemed to come up with a new one thwt culminated I'm the new core books.

That ending is such a doozy that Robert Jordan wrote an entire epic length novel processing it! First, I would like tattacker the chance to commend the reference work that Jordan's widow and personal assistants put together after the whole series was done, it is excellent as a reference tool...

Mostly in for the maps and adventures, but I think this is neat.

Touché.

Plus, they already had 10, 1 per Dragon type.

Dragon Jeist has a mixed reception...but last I checked, ot was one of the best selling campaign books. There are other examples, like Witchlight or Strixhaven, that have a smaller ambit of Levels covered.

The Beyond platform, full of a decade of first and third party compatible material, seems more than sufficient to dampen the desire for change.

No, it is just...jarring and unnatural sounding.

But turning the color into a noun and putting it after "dragon" is a cure much worse than the illness, as even apparent violations of adjective preference are deeply jarring in English.

Nooooo...no. Following a noun with an adjective (even if it is "Noun-ified") is a violation of the word order in English. Adjective order is actually one of the weirdly strict rules in English (of the ten categories of adjective, color comes in at number 7, for instance.

I like the standard 5E "house style" a lot, but I like this approach for a book.

That...does not feel natural in English usage?