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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FitzTheRuke" data-source="post: 9424212" data-attributes="member: 59816">No, they would definitely lose more players with a fully brand new edition.Not to mention, the attrition rate is currently slower than the adoption rate.I've been a retailer since 1993, so I've seen my share of new editions. They always sell great initially and then trickle off over time.OTOH, 5e didn't grow over time for my store, though I believe it did for WotC (but that has to do with them finding more presence in B&N and Amazon and DDB) but sales didn't noticeably shrink either. They shrank a bit with the announcement of 2024 Core, but they didn't fall off a cliff like they did before when a new Edition was announced. (As an aside, a strange phenomenon is that an "old edition" dies when a new edition is announced, but makes a comeback after the new edition is released - I've seen it happen every time).This time, I fully expect that the initial release of the 2024 Core will be slightly smaller than before (relatively - both the audience for D&D and my store are larger, so the actual numbers might be bigger but as a percentage of the market, I think smaller) but I don't expect it to slow down much. I think that most "holdouts" will pick it up over time, and all new players will just pick up the new books.I could be wrong, but I haven't been in business for 30 years by being wrong about this sort of thing. We shall see.</blockquote>