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My bet, as I've stated before, is somewhere between (very roughly) 4 and 7 years after launch. Hence why I've said if we haven't heard relatively reputable rumors/"my secret sources"-type stuff that there's a 6e playtest in the works by the time we've hit the 5 year mark (so late 2029/early...

Good luck on convincing Lanefan about this. I've tried before, you can see the lack of fruits of my labor.

And that's precisely what I'm calling out. You are taking one thing as a bedrock assumption so fundamental it doesn't need to be discussed, while rejecting the other explicitly, without justification. It's just...."well of course that's how it is, it just...is!" That, that thing right there, is...

Ah yes, because no one can ever criticize a game they haven't run, but have played numerous times. Such pushback is, frankly, ridiculous. I can read easily enough, and I've played 5e many, many times at this point. More than I've played 4e, both in terms of total session length and in terms of...

I agree that combat tended to be slow (though some of that had to do with certain very specific unfortunate design choices in early 4e), but the way to fix that isn't to trash the system that works well, it's to create something like my "Skirmish" concept. That is, combats that are...

Oh, I'm quite well aware of it. I call it the "guy at the gym" problem. If it's not something they can imagine a guy at the gym doing, it's not possible for a Fighter. Even though doing some of the things D&D characters do is literally beyond Olympic Athlete level stuff. It's a pox upon the...

Not very many, but mostly because I only got started on GMing too late to have any audience for 4e (and wanted a system somewhat lighter for friends who had never touched a TTRPG before.)

I would only GM 5e if I was paid above minimum wage for it.

You'll forgive me for not particularly having much faith in WotC's ability to write adventures that in any way successfully teach this.

Why not? You allow it with one kind of supernatural power. Why not another?

I don't think either one is strictly a problem in isolation. The problem is trying to make them both speak the same proverbial language.

Then I will simply stop replying to them.

Well I was trying to cut off at the pass the everpresent refrain of "WELL IT WASN'T PERFECT REMEMBER NEEDLEFANG DRAKES? REMEMBER LEVEL 1 DRACOLICHES?!" Because yes, I have had to fend off those sorts of """responses""" for literal years, and thus have learned to bake in the things which...

I'm well aware of your flagrant anti-4e bias. There's no need to bring it up again. I have. They're awful. No. 5e "blew up" because: It got incredibly lucky with the zeitgeist of the time embracing 80s nostalgia and specifically embracing D&D as a thing that was in vogue It landed at the...

I mean the buy-on has absolutely nothing to do with the quality of either version of 5e. Like genuinely it is completely irrelevant which is better and which is worse. The market for people who were considering buying D&D 5e, but didn't for a whole decade, is pretty damned slim. So outright...

The number of times I've been told by actual GMs on this very forum that 5e encounter-building rules are inferior to outright guessing, tells me my experience is at least slightly more universal than yours on this subject.

So you're now giving every spellcaster an enormous boost in what it's allowed to be, while nerfing anything that isn't a spellcaster? I mean, if you want to be obvious about it, there are more straightforward ways, but. This is open and unabashed caster favoritism. Casters are now simply...

Considering I'm quite confident that would completely exclude all spellcasters from 5e, how do you expect to run this, like...ever? In fact I'm pretty sure even the Fighter isn't 5-or-fewer pages. Each subclass is at least half a page by itself!

That is the very thing in contention though. If you are chronically rewriting the rules under the players' feet, and merely informing them after the fact "oh yeah by the way, today I've decided that initiative is done with a deck of cards, I know it was popcorn last week but popcorn is too...

There isn't any. Which was the point I already made above. It isn't a game. It's "Dance, My Playthings", but incognito, because people tend to react badly when you just say that outright.