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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kenjib" data-source="post: 1323273" data-attributes="member: 530">Classes, levels, hit points, armor class, spell slots, as well as signature spells and monsters - these things are all core identity for D&D that I suspect would be similar to how they have always been, even if they end up slightly tweaked (wounds/vitality, ac & dr, etc. being minor permutations in my opinion).  I expect some kind of meta-mechanics to appear, such as action points.  Having XP awarded based on character motivation or goal accomplishment and completely decoupling it from monster slaying I think would be a good thing but I really don't think they would do it because it makes it harder to integrate a tie-in miniature game and also might not be as simple to adjudicate.  An overhaul of the CR/ECL system so that it is not so closely tied to a baseline of magic level would be nice too.Successful and/or popular 3rd party d20 innovations will be brought into the fold, possibly including such things as racial classes, spell templates, variable level spells, ritual magic of some sort, a shaman class, and others.The system is already pretty modular to sell & plug in new a constant stream of new content so the only profit-oriented marketing changes I can see would be to possibly make cross-marketing different products more easy to do, although that's covered pretty well now too.  They've applied the MtG model somewhat to D&D but I still think there's room for it to go further.  I don't like the idea but I think it's a possibility.</blockquote>

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