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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Herremann the Wise" data-source="post: 4845872" data-attributes="member: 11300">1. I don't see 4E lasting up to 10 years. While it plays differently to 3.x, it is still heavily derived from 3.x with the powers system (and all it's issues good and bad) grafted on. There is little new that can be crafted for the system except recreating and re-interpreting what has gone before in its new 4E guise. Simplicity and elegance are good design goals but I'm not sure they will inspire the longevity required to string the game out year after year. As such, the likelihood and even existence of 5E is not 100% certain for me. I would not be surprised to see a change of official hands being required to spur on the next edition of the game.2. & 3. I can see Pathfinder and 3.5 effectively coalescing in a year or two's time in terms of its player base. I think the fans are hardcore enough to keep a continuing but albeit minor presence in the market. 3.5 will steadily dwindle to the point where the two cannot help but cross paths and most likely join ever-decreasing forces.4. Most likely.5...I can see the overall market steadily dwindling as computer games become even more the staple while pen and paper get left further and further behind. The fracturing of the dominant 3.x community by the eventual presentation of 4E just over a year ago will be seen as the potential dooming of the game. While both forms of the game have its devotees, it cannot be denied that the dividing of the community has lessened the games overall momentum... and that to me is a real shame.Best RegardsHerremann the Wise</blockquote>

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