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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 5476796" data-attributes="member: 7006">I don't think we'll ever see something that is branded 5E UNTIL such time as ever single baseline digital tool they want to have made has been created and released for 4E.&nbsp; Right now we're in a prolonged beta phase of the WotC digital initative, and we're only maybe about halfway there.&nbsp; Compendium, CB, Monster Tools, soon the VTT.&nbsp; After that, the Encounter Builder, Trap and Terrain Builder, Character Visualizer, and Campaign Builder all could/should be designed and released as well.Once these have all been made and released, and the public's had over a year to hammer out these pieces of software, telling them what works, what doesn't work, what's useful, what's useless, what's needed, what's not needed to make them better... then and only then will they release a so-called FIFTH EDITION that includes a cleaned-up and revamped EVERYTHING.&nbsp; The game itself gets fixed, edited and changed... and all the tools for it get released at the exact same time.&nbsp; No more of this &quot;piecemeal&quot; release schedule of tools that we've seen during 4E.That's the only way you could realistically release a 5th edition of the game and get most 4E players to move over.&nbsp; A fully revamped package of boards, books and programs that could be marketed as the &quot;complete D&amp;D experience&quot;.&nbsp; So in that regard, Mercurius, your idea of the three sides of D&amp;D... the &quot;board game&quot;, the &quot;roleplaying game&quot;, the &quot;computer game&quot;, make a lot of sense.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 5476796, member: 7006"] I don't think we'll ever see something that is branded 5E UNTIL such time as ever single baseline digital tool they want to have made has been created and released for 4E. Right now we're in a prolonged beta phase of the WotC digital initative, and we're only maybe about halfway there. Compendium, CB, Monster Tools, soon the VTT. After that, the Encounter Builder, Trap and Terrain Builder, Character Visualizer, and Campaign Builder all could/should be designed and released as well. Once these have all been made and released, and the public's had over a year to hammer out these pieces of software, telling them what works, what doesn't work, what's useful, what's useless, what's needed, what's not needed to make them better... then and only then will they release a so-called FIFTH EDITION that includes a cleaned-up and revamped EVERYTHING. The game itself gets fixed, edited and changed... and all the tools for it get released at the exact same time. No more of this "piecemeal" release schedule of tools that we've seen during 4E. That's the only way you could realistically release a 5th edition of the game and get most 4E players to move over. A fully revamped package of boards, books and programs that could be marketed as the "complete D&D experience". So in that regard, Mercurius, your idea of the three sides of D&D... the "board game", the "roleplaying game", the "computer game", make a lot of sense. [/QUOTE]

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