D&D (2024) 6E When?

[Shardstone]

Hopefully never. Keep 5E evergreen and only do small updates on it. If D&D is to be super mainstream, you can't reinvent it all the time.

 

[The Crimson Binome]

Not soon enough, that's for certain. I was ready for 6E in 2017.

 

[Charlaquin]

I won’t be surprised if revolution or climate collapse happen before 6e, and the chances of there ever being a 6e decrease dramatically after either.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

50th Anniversary will see something big, but it won’t be a 6e by any reasonable standard.

It will probably be less different than Essentials was from PHB 4e, and the two were completely compatible.

More like a special edition reprint with slightly more aggressive errata. Possibly a rebuild of some unsatisfying options, but probably nothing even as dramatic as any given designer wants to do.

DnD is Adv/Disadv, Bonus Actions, Bounded Accuracy, and Hit Dice, now. Full stop. WoTC’s goal has always been and will always be an edition of dnd that that becomes a household name that you can come back to twenty years later and it’s pretty much the same as when you left it, but with more options if you buy the expansions.

 

[ccs]

I won’t be surprised if revolution or climate collapse happen before 6e, and the chances of there ever being a 6e decrease dramatically after either.

I doubt the climate will collapse before summer 2024.
Revolution.....

 

[Parmandur]

50th Anniversary will see something big, but it won’t be a 6e by any reasonable standard.

It will probably be less different than Essentials was from PHB 4e, and the two were completely compatible.

More like a special edition reprint with slightly more aggressive errata. Possibly a rebuild of some unsatisfying options, but probably nothing even as dramatic as any given designer wants to do.

DnD is Adv/Disadv, Bonus Actions, Bounded Accuracy, and Hit Dice, now. Full stop. WoTC’s goal has always been and will always be an edition of dnd that that becomes a household name that you can come back to twenty years later and it’s pretty much the same as when you left it, but with more options if you buy the expansions.

Crawford has increasingly been beating the drum of how D&D offers exception based design, around a tight core of rules. Makes it easy enough to just provide a new set of exceptions that can be plugged in or out with older options...

 

[LordEntrails]

Not soon enough, that's for certain. I was ready for 6E in 2017.

I doubt you will be happy with whatever 6E turns out to be.

 

[Don Durito]

I believe Mearls has said that they'll do a 6th edition when the flaws in 5E have become annoying and obvious enough to the player base to make one necessary (or something to that effect).

And also that he really doesn't want to contemplate it.

 

[Don Durito]

One thing I'm certain of is that the difference between 6e and 5e will probably be more like the difference between 3.0 and 3.5 or 1e and 2e, rather than say 3.5 to 4e or 4e to 5e.

 

[Zardnaar]

Yeah I'm expecting evolution over revolution.