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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8189756" data-attributes="member: 18"><p>I do agree that absent other factors, 2024 is likely for the official launch of a 6E. I'm curious why you think they'd do an overpriced fancy edition in 2024 but delay a normal-priced edition to 2025. That would cause absolute rioting from the fanbase. No-one would think it was okay to force people to buy a price-gouge over-the-top edition to get a new version of the game the year it came out. That would seriously damage the D&D brand. So that won't happen. However, a special edition and a normal edition both in 2024 does seem very plausible.</p><p></p><p>I would also personally anticipate that as discussed in another thread, if they create their own DDB, which seems likely if these guys turn up at WotC, they do some kind of "early access" to 6E with it. What form, exactly, that will take, I don't know. The obvious model would be to make all playtesting of 6E go through their DDB-equivalent, instead of sending out PDFs and so on which get distributed across the internets, so you'd get double-duty playtesting, both of the new edition and of their new DDB. And they could do an "early access" model where people could join the "beta" by pre-purchasing digital copies of the 6E books, but that may be a bridge too far. I wouldn't be surprised to see that in 2023.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 8189756, member: 18"] I do agree that absent other factors, 2024 is likely for the official launch of a 6E. I'm curious why you think they'd do an overpriced fancy edition in 2024 but delay a normal-priced edition to 2025. That would cause absolute rioting from the fanbase. No-one would think it was okay to force people to buy a price-gouge over-the-top edition to get a new version of the game the year it came out. That would seriously damage the D&D brand. So that won't happen. However, a special edition and a normal edition both in 2024 does seem very plausible. I would also personally anticipate that as discussed in another thread, if they create their own DDB, which seems likely if these guys turn up at WotC, they do some kind of "early access" to 6E with it. What form, exactly, that will take, I don't know. The obvious model would be to make all playtesting of 6E go through their DDB-equivalent, instead of sending out PDFs and so on which get distributed across the internets, so you'd get double-duty playtesting, both of the new edition and of their new DDB. And they could do an "early access" model where people could join the "beta" by pre-purchasing digital copies of the 6E books, but that may be a bridge too far. I wouldn't be surprised to see that in 2023. [/QUOTE]
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