4.5E: When?

[xechnao]

As soon as Wotc thinks that 4.5 will sell like hot cakes it will be there.
-nuff said

 

[Mr Jack]

I think we'll see a 4th edition revised but it will be completely compatible with 4th + errata, clarifications and so forth. It might add a couple of new races/classes.

There won't be a 4.5 in the vein of 3.5.

5th will come around 2013-2015.

 

[delericho]

I don't think there will ever be a 4.5e - I think the next iteration of the PHB/DMG/MM (as opposed to PHB2, 3, 4...) will be marked as 5th Edition.

I have no idea when 5th Edition will be released. I've decided not to think about it.

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

I think the PHB 2, DMG II and MM II will contain any errata to general rules. The DDI (or rather: the WotC website - I don't think it will require a DDI membership) and later printings of the core rulebooks will give us all errata that can be easily incorporated.

The DMG II can improve on a lot of "how do I rule X" stuff or "how do I use rule Y", and might contain a revised skill challenge system.

They will probably not "dare" to create a 4.5 rulebooks, since people just don't like the term. (Even though in the end, I agree with most, if not all, changes between 3.0 to 3.5, I still don't want to see a .5 again.)

 

[Grazzt]

There will never be a 4.5E "official" release. No, it is much more likely that each new PHB, MM, and DMG will contain all of the rules revisions and errata that would have gone into a 4.5 Edition, with a note stating that these edits supercede the rules in previous books.

This worries me.

Yep. My prediction as well. With a "core" release of the PH, DMG, every year, they can easily slip in additions, changes, rules that rewrite existing rules, etc. It will be 4.5, but they will never officially call it that.

 

[Nebulous]

Like others said, i think 4e will slowly mutate with each expanding core book. I like 4e, but for every thing i like about it, there's something i don't like too. And that really irks me. I wanted to love this system top to bottom.

Edit: Hey Scott, i hope to God you guys are adding some good flavor text to the Tome of Horrors. Remember what it was like to actually read a monster manual for FUN?

 

[Grazzt]

Edit: Hey Scott, i hope to God you guys are adding some good flavor text to the Tome of Horrors. Remember what it was like to actually read a monster manual for FUN?

Yeppers. That I do.

 

[Brown Jenkin]

5e will be released about 2 years after the decline in sales of the splat books and core x books are noticed.

 

[VictorC]

4.5 that's last week, I've been helping them playtest 5th edition. It's super sweet and should hit shelves four and a half days after Gen Con.

 

[drothgery]

The pattern with AD&D/WotC D&D, if we count 3.5 as a distinct edition, seems to be major update (1e)/tweak (2e)/major update (3e)/tweak (3.5e)/major update (4e).

Since WotC higher-ups have all but signed oaths in blood saying "There will be no 4.5", and agree that 3.5 was too soon (and hence 3.5 lasted nearly twice as long as 3e), the next edition will be 5e, it will likely appear in 2013 or later, and it will probably be about a 1e->2e level of change.