D&D (2024) 6E When?

[Parmandur]

But, like politics, good idea or bad idea, stay on message.

In business, bad plans fail and ought not to be repeated once the reasons have been identified.

 

[Tony Vargas]

In business, bad plans fail and ought not to be repeated once the reasons have been identified.

Well, if acknowledging the reasons wouldn't be an equally bad idea....

 

[Parmandur]

Well, if acknowledging the reasons wouldn't be an equally bad idea....

The main reason is that people avoid buying the PHB, and go for the PHB 2 or 3 and get confused when they can't figure out how to play...or worse, don't buy the book.

It's pretty cut and dried: it did not work in practice.

 

[Tony Vargas]

The main reason is that people avoid buying the PHB, and go for the PHB 2 or 3 and get confused when they can't figure out how to play...or worse, don't buy the book.

It's pretty cut and dried: it did not work in practice.

Except it had worked fine when 3.5 had a PH2 on the shelf.

And the solution to that supposed confusion was 10 products labeled "essential," none of them clearly titled as for players.

And, now, there's no issue with an "on ramp" related product being out of synch?

Sorry, in this case the party line is a bit implausible. I'm sure there's something that'd make sense if it, but you don't have access to it.

Thanks for the link about the boardgames, though, I had no idea they were continuations of the same line as Castle Ravenloft.

 

[happyhermit]

But "Player's Handbook 2" is so evocative, so inspiring, surely something of great value is lost if that (apparently?) sacred cow dies. Think of the children.

 

[Tony Vargas]

But "Player's Handbook 2" is so evocative, so inspiring, surely something of great value is lost if that (apparently?) sacred cow dies. Think of the children.

I'm sure there's tables not using stuff in XGtE and a few other sources because all the player stuff wasn't just put in a book with "Player's" on the cover. And, while some of those may have been better had they gotten to do so, others of them, I'm sure are headed by a DM dreadful to not have to deal with any of it.

And, I don't think anything calved in 3.5 can claim bovine sanctity. Really have to date back to TSR for that.

 

[R_J_K75]

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

More I play 5E the more I dont like it. I hope they come out with 6E soon or Im switching back to 2E.

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

My suggestion is Hasbro to buy the Spanish little company Gamezone (now this isn't in its best time) to publish a reboot of the classic dungeon-crawling board game "Hero Quest", but now with the name "Endless Quest" by trademark matters.

With easy rules to get new players among +7 children. And publishing a free app for mobile to be the AI in solo games. And I would add as expansion a pack of unusual dices (1d5,1d7,1d9,1d14,1d16,1d18,1d22,1d24,1d30) because some players love creating house rules. And now what I think about that, with this "Endless Quest" they could allow themself some risks with little changes in the rules, for example adding new abilities scores: courage(bravery), acuity (astuteness and perception, noticing about little details as clues for an investigation) and spirit (resistance against supernatural forces, luck, karma, fate, guardian angel, blessed by a state of grace). And these rules should be open licence, because if more companies publish dungeon-crawling board games then more players will buy the most popular title.

If there is a 6th Ed maybe the classes and races will be like Pathfinder 2, an optional list of feats, easy to be replaced with subclasses/archetypes and subraces.

I have said in previous post the next edition will be after a transitional spin-off, something like Starfinder, but with other franchises as Gamma World, Star*Drive or Star Frontiers, or a "one-shot" adapting some famous videogame, for example Overwatch or Fortnite: Save the World.

 

[Parmandur]

I'm sure there's tables not using stuff in XGtE and a few other sources because all the player stuff wasn't just put in a book with "Player's" on the cover. And, while some of those may have been better had they gotten to do so, others of them, I'm sure are headed by a DM dreadful to not have to deal with any of it.

And, I don't think anything calved in 3.5 can claim bovine sanctity. Really have to date back to TSR for that.

Xanathar's Guide is the best selling supplement in the history of the game: I think it's OK.

Just because you aren't happy with what was found doesn't make it untrue: it seems very true to my knowledge of psychology.

 

[Arnwolf666]

Really they should just do a new edition every year that is released in November. The edition can be renamed for the year. Right now edition 2020 should be coming out because it is the Edition that should be used for 2020. Some years the changes will only be minor corrections. But they should look at what has and has not been working for the year and make appropriate changes. Additionally there will be a terms and conditions that must be signed for all purchases. And at that time you must turn in your previous books from the last year to be burned. Banning of all earlier editions is a must. Also as according to the terms and conditions your home and locations of play may be investigated randomly to insure no one is playing the wrong edition and that everyone is playing by the same rules. No house rules allowed. We have to do everything possible to insure that everyone has the same shared experience. We can not tolerate an environment where every player in the world is not having the same shared experience. Strangely China is really on board with this.