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Message: <blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 5339791" data-attributes="member: 22424">That used to be the case, but consider that they now have the DDI to consider. If this is to continue, but they want to significantly revise the rules, then they'll need to go to significant expense to redesign the DDI. That's not going to be a cheap or easy job. So, there may be much more inertia working against 5e than there was against previous editions.Honestly, I don't think this is possible. The battle-lines are now just too entrenched. And I suspect a large portion of those who are 'lost' to Pathfinder are now gone forever. (The same is probably true of the retroclones also, but I suspect the numbers are so much smaller as can be considered "not a problem".)I suspect that, to see a reunification, gaming would first need to undergo a seismic shift, of the scale of the collapse of TSR. Either WotC would need to collapse, and D&D be sold to Paizo, or both WotC and Paizo would need to collapse, and both be bought out by a third party. (It's just about possible that WotC could buy out Paizo, but they'd have to handle it very carefully, or they'd just alienate Pathfinder fans even more.)No, assuming that 5e is still produced by WotC, I would argue that they would be better served focussing heavily on bringing in new gamers, making a better game for their existing fans... and largely ignoring the 'lost' fans, except where they can recapture them on an opportunistic basis.</blockquote>

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