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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wedgeski" data-source="post: 5643157" data-attributes="member: 16212">To my mind there are a few facts that need to be accounted for in the next edition if it is to appeal to as wide a base as possible: D&D no longer rules the roost; go *forward*, not backward; innovate to stand apart; use the social network to its fullest; provide quality electronic tools.(Interestingly I think Wizards engaged with several of these for 4E and should be given credit for that whatever your view on the game that emerged in the process.)Previous editions split the fans, but no previous edition had the OGL to contend with. In a lot of ways, I'm glad that the R&D dept. at Wizards weren't so scared of the OGL that they just iterated on 3.5 and delivered a 4th Edition that was no more than D&D v3.6. Instead they stripped the game right back and delivered a contemporary vision of D&D, to love or to hate as you saw fit.But now you have two supported visions of a game with D&D at its roots, and the industry has changed. Official D&D no longer rules. Wizards need to embrace that fact with the next version (which I hope is years and years away), continue to innovate, and if they consider the bite Paizo is taking out of their market to be big enough, take them on.Paizo have built their market as a safe haven for 3.5 players who didn't like 4E. They've achieved this with utmost skill, but it remains to be seen whether their customers will forever buy material for a game that looks like 3.5, and if not, how they'll react to innovations which start to take the game in new directions. I can imagine Pathfinder 2 and D&D 5 coming at about the same time, and it'll be a fascinating scrap.</blockquote>

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