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<blockquote data-quote="Jaeger" data-source="post: 8412851" data-attributes="member: 27996">I fall into the camp that believes that &quot;50AE D&amp;D&quot; will be a solid 5.5+ 'not-edition' of the game.There are just too many small things that they want to change, and too many rules from splat books that they want to incorporate back into the core rules that they will have to go through and re-balance to make them work with all the other changes.The accumulation of all these small changes will have a cascade effect that will push them into doing a full on 5.5+ ‘not-edition’.When talking about the &quot;50th Anniversary release of D&amp;D&quot; Ray Winninger's own words were: &quot;A living game that continues to grow and evolve.&quot; and &quot;The next evolution of the game.&quot;...And that is completely leaving aside the fact that in the announcement video WotC has openly said they will also do a new round of survey’s asking their ‘players’ how they can make the &quot;Evolved&quot; D&amp;D Revision even better... I don't need a magic 8 ball to see where this is going.I would also take the claims of &quot;Fully Compatible&quot; to mean the same thing they claimed in the 3.0 to 3.5 era.IMHO by never using the word 'edition' when describing it, they are relying on the hubbub of it being the “50th anniversary release of D&amp;D&quot; to give them the cover to do all this with minimal pushback from the player base. And it seems to be working...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jaeger, post: 8412851, member: 27996"] I fall into the camp that believes that "50AE D&D" will be a solid 5.5+ 'not-edition' of the game. There are just too many small things that they want to change, and too many rules from splat books that they want to incorporate back into the core rules that they will have to go through and re-balance to make them work with all the other changes. The accumulation of all these small changes will have a cascade effect that [I]will push them[/I] into doing a full on 5.5+ ‘not-edition’. When talking about the "50th Anniversary release of D&D" Ray Winninger's own words were: [I]"A living game that continues to grow and evolve."[/I] and [I]"The next evolution of the game."...[/I] And that is completely leaving aside the fact that in the announcement video WotC has openly said they will also do a new round of survey’s asking their ‘players’ how they can make the "Evolved" D&D Revision even better... I don't need a magic 8 ball to see where this is going. I would also take the claims of "Fully Compatible" to mean the same thing they claimed in the 3.0 to 3.5 era. IMHO by never using the word 'edition' when describing it, they are relying on the hubbub of it being the “50th anniversary release of D&D" to give them the cover to do all this with minimal pushback from the player base. And it seems to be working... [/QUOTE]

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