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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 9739547" data-attributes="member: 6790260">I mean the buy-on has absolutely nothing to do with the quality of either version of 5e. Like genuinely it is completely irrelevant which is better and which is worse.The market for people who were considering buying D&D 5e, but didn't for a whole decade, is pretty damned slim. So outright brand-new customers are going to be thin on the ground.The market for people who already have D&D 5e, but are unhappy with it, cannot be any greater than the market was for people who didn't have it before 5.0 dropped. It is almost certainly smaller, because some proportion will be happy with what they have, and some proportion will dislike something about the new, whatever that dislike may be.Every re-release in this kind of situation is chasing diminishing returns. That is the nature of revisions. They will never have the staying power of the original thing, if the original thing succeeded, as this did.I've already been saying for years now that 5.5e would only have between 4 and 6 years in the tank, compared to 5.0's decade. Fewer if it did really poorly, perhaps edging up into 7 years if it did phenomenally well, but either way, it's a thing of diminishing returns. If we haven't heard reputable rumbles about an upcoming 6th edition playtest by 2029, 5.5e will have significantly exceeded its expected lifespan.</blockquote>