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They sent out the documents that ended up being leaked, and thus precipitated the whole crisis. Whether those were intended as their final word or, as some have speculated, as a first draft for negotiation is largely irrelevant to me - they shouldn't have even taken the first step down that road.

I've never used a VTT. Even while running two campaigns online during lockdown, we used nothing more advanced that Teams or Zoom.

It depends which measure you use. If you look solely at PHB sales (which according to Ryan Dancey is the metric that matters), 1st > 2nd > 3.0e > 3.5e > 4e. (But 3.0e + 3.5e > 2nd.) And then 5e blows them all away. If you look at total book sales, 4e > 3.5e > 3e > 2nd > 1st. And then 5e blows...

I have no problem with WotC trying to monetize their brand. I have no interest in almost everything they and their licensees produce, but I don't object to them producing them. I do object to their actions concerning the OGL. Frankly, I consider even the attempt to be unethical, and had they...

I sometimes wonder how many 5e books in general are actually getting used, as opposed to existing to look good on a coffee table and allow time-poor cash-rich execs to let their geek flag fly.

To be honest, I think they're doing almost all of the right things. I'm not keen on their content, but that's just me - and given that I'm not gaming at the moment, it would be even more insane than normal to aim products at me. (That is, it would normally be crazy to target an audience of 1 out...

That's fair. Also, to answer your question, I'm not. :)

You said that "We won't know the answer to that until 2034 at the earliest." If they announce a new edition in 2028, that's a good bit before then.

Yeah. Either they just panicked or, as someone else said, the battle within WotC was definitively won by one faction.

Not too much of a bit, though - I picked up that WW monster book along with my PHB, and before the 3e MM was out.

If they announce a new edition in three years or, worse, cancel the game outright, I think we can make some assumptions.

Well... except that kind of did. With the credible threat on the table that the OGL maybe could be broken, nobody can now trust it as the foundation of their business. So the producers have now moved on to other things. Had WotC not completely lost their nerve and put the SRD under the CC...

Aren't there third-party materials for 5.5 on the DM's Guild?

That's true... but I'll be extremely surprised if the 2024 PHB outsells the 2014 one.

I thought the 2024 PHB was supposed to be the fastest-selling RPG product of all time? I do tend to agree, though, that D&D's moment of prominence in the zeitgeist seems to be coming to a close. And that's not really a surprise - geek media as a whole seems to be slipping away. Both Star Wars...

But none of these is as big as Star Wars, so if no SW RPG is making that money, it's pretty safe to say nothing else will. The value of "Dungeons & Dragons" is in the brand, which was and is protected. As you point out in the rest of your post, that line of argument just doesn't stack up...

Uh, Doctor Evil. That has already happened. Someone did make a "Star Wars D&D". They were called "Wizards of the Coast". It didn't make a bazillion dollars, though. Sufficiently advanced ineptitude is indistinguishable from malice. :)

Ideally, I'd prefer to see all options: a 'simple' wizard for people who just want to play, a 'complex' wizard for those for whom the challenge is part of the point (and 'simple' and 'complex' fighters, rogues, etc). That is, I'd rather player intelligence not be required to play a wizard (or...

Okay, fair enough, that's an overstatement. Perils of posting in too much haste.