More likely 5E variant. 2/3rds are playing it and they've already done it.
Alot of OSR clobes are 1-3 peopke a V/X clone us around 100 pages.
Easy to produce.
If you like old D&D or are old its a cleaner system than AD&D.
Outright clones may as well be D&D even if they're using a differenr cosmolimigy for copyright reasons. This includes Pathfinder 1 but not 2E.
D&D cousins eg 13th Age, Shadowdark. DCC are not D&D.
Part of that early crunch is figuring out what people want.
Older D&D was cobbled togather they rebuilt D&D 3 times in 14 years.
The ingredients are all there in 5E to do whatever. Theyre just scartered through all the books. You could clone most editions with the 5E engine.
Yeah. I wouldn't make Zards preferred version if a magic genie gave me control over WotC.
I would poll for severe changes. Complexity feats yay or nay. If yay micro or bigger feats. Lvl 1-10 yay or nay things like that.
I wouldn't poll on a basic engine but might on tweaks to it.
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Its the Uber cheap price. Old twin spell was kinda expensive.
New one letets you twin all you lvl2+ slots of you want with points left over.
The very low fost overall is a buff imho. Its also why I say Sorcerers better at control than wizards.
Im notvdure what the best rogue is. I have 3 builds.
DM who isnt completely opposed to working with me Zhent thief. Otherwise multiclass or built around true strike.
Ranger or Fighter/rogue. I dont like the 3-9 gap on rogues when a lot of classes "switch on" around 6th. Or even 3.
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I couldn't play the old TR even then. Controls were to janky.
Last actor looked like the new TR games. I quite liked them tbh.
Sophie doesnt look like the video game Lara. She does look like depictions of her in related artwork.
Two years for a revision is typical. That's 5 years total.
Gives you an idea why you can't design a perfect edition on release. 5 years work and hundreds of thousands of responses maybe more.