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<blockquote data-quote="Ogrork the Mighty" data-source="post: 3917345" data-attributes="member: 19042">I predict that D&amp;D is going to go the route of many heavy metal bands: it will come out with a new edition, alienate a large chunk of its fanbase, suffer a less than anticipated &quot;success&quot;, reevaluate as the market continues to shrink, and eventually release a 5E version that takes D&amp;D &quot;back to its roots.&quot;We've gone from &quot;fixing grappling&quot; to foisting daggers/rods/wands/staves on wizards (one of the silliest &quot;innovations&quot; I've seen so far). Gutting spell schools, randomly deleting gods, tieflings in - gnomes out, etc., etc., etc.It's just bizarre. I keep thinking I'm going to wake up one day and all this 4E crap will turn out to be a bad joke. I'll admit that I wasn't fond of 4E coming out as soon as it is. But with what 4E is turning out to be, I'm a whole lot of underwhelmed. I'd rather they just pull another X.5 and incrementally move 3.5 to 4.0.It seems like there's too much big change for the sake of change, with little &quot;method behind the madness.&quot; Crikeys, someone posts an idea and next thing you know it's been adopted and the whole D&amp;D universe is rewritten.I feel like I'm in Bizarro World.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown&nbsp; &nbsp; :("&nbsp; data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ogrork the Mighty, post: 3917345, member: 19042"] I predict that D&D is going to go the route of many heavy metal bands: it will come out with a new edition, alienate a large chunk of its fanbase, suffer a less than anticipated "success", reevaluate as the market continues to shrink, and eventually release a 5E version that takes D&D "back to its roots." We've gone from "fixing grappling" to foisting daggers/rods/wands/staves on wizards (one of the silliest "innovations" I've seen so far). Gutting spell schools, randomly deleting gods, tieflings in - gnomes out, etc., etc., etc. It's just bizarre. I keep thinking I'm going to wake up one day and all this 4E crap will turn out to be a bad joke. I'll admit that I wasn't fond of 4E coming out as soon as it is. But with what 4E is turning out to be, I'm a whole lot of underwhelmed. I'd rather they just pull another X.5 and incrementally move 3.5 to 4.0. It seems like there's too much big change for the sake of change, with little "method behind the madness." Crikeys, someone posts an idea and next thing you know it's been adopted and the whole D&D universe is rewritten. I feel like I'm in Bizarro World. :( [/QUOTE]

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