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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 9227765" data-attributes="member: 82106">I think WotC is a business and they make what sells to the best of their ability. They decided that a game less different from 3e than 4e was would shift more units off the shelves, enough to defray any development cost, and they produced that product. I guarantee you that's how management views it.I would be interested in a '5.5e' or something like that, but I'm already 100% sure it will be too much like 5e to make any difference for me. My feeling is WotC basically gave up any likely momentum to actually experiment with the game when they pretty much ditched every real innovation of 4e. I mean, the type of people that got excited about 5e in 2014 are never going to go along with ANY changes that aren't mild and largely cosmetic. That's the bind WotC is in now, they've defined themselves as the provider of 'old fashioned stuff' in the RPG world. That works for a while, but eventually it will stop working. Maybe at that point there will be a change of stewardship and a 6e that really innovates again, but I don't see that happening in the next few years.</blockquote>