D&D 4E 5th edition - 2015? Or is 4ed the last?

[Man in the Funny Hat]

It doesn't matter because I don't care. Whenever 5E comes out (be it 6 years or 16)I'll be 99% certain to buy that too.

 

[Ranger REG]

It doesn't matter because I don't care. Whenever 5E comes out (be it 6 years or 16)I'll be 99% certain to buy that too.

Even if it's packaged in a toxic waste barrel?

I don't mind you adore D&D, I just don't know if I can coexist those with blind admiration.

 

[Elephant]

My guess is 2011 for 4.5 , 2014 5 ed. announce, 2015 for 5 Ed. released.

Sounds about right, give or take a year.

 

[Minicol]

So what do you think? Will there be a 5ed? And does 2015 sound about right? Or is 4ed the last true table-top edition of D&D?

Well, I hope it is the last ever done by the current team, but if they do one, I imagine it will look like this :

i think there will be a 5e, which will include the great purge of the "holy pigs" that have been plaguing 4e so badly :
- no more warlocks
- no more tieflings
- The dragonborn will be rewritten so they are now monsters, they will have a cow head and be named minodrakes
- it will be discovered that hp are not fun, they will be replaced by an abstract wound system, making D&D essentially pointless
- FR will be hit by a invasion of reborn modrons from a defunct cosmology, and be turned inside out so that now drow live on the surface and can sunbathe all day. Drizzt adventures will continue, and will be bradcast on TV starring with Pamela Undersun.
- Eberron will discover computer and be the new cyberpunk world.

 

[Betote]

I'd say 5th Ed will hit the shelves in 2014. 40th anniversary just calls for that.

 

[dm4hire]

There might be a 4.0 revision, but I doubt 4.5. WotC learned from the backlash of 3.5 about doing that. Too many changes warrants a new edition, but fixing errors and tightening the rules goes over well. Monte Cook even said a lot of the changes in 3.5 should have waited till 4.0 not because they weren't needed but because they were too drastic of changes for a partial revision. 4.0 revised will see new artwork, consolidating spread out rules between the various supplements and that's it most likely.

Though with their drive to do all the variant books with sequential numbers I doubt they will do that as that would make PHB 2-x obsolete. Best we can hope for is that with each reprinting they correct errors and announce it so you can get an error free book.

Timing 5.0 for release with the 40th anniversary makes sense and most likely they will start planning next year for that, giving them 5 years to get it done.