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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mercurius" data-source="post: 6236413" data-attributes="member: 59082">4e sold well at first, yes, but it wasn't received that well by the community - so I think the inkling of "Renton, we have a problem" began right in 2008. And it wasn't just that people had issues with it, there wasn't a huge fan-base of those who absolutely loved it. There were (and are) a few, but nothing like the "3e fanatics" that continue to this day, albeit largely under the purview of Pathfinder.I agree that if 5e doesn't sell really well we won't see 6e...from Wizards of the Coast, at least, and for quite some time. I think we'd see a gradual wind down over a few years - they'd probably really give it a shot before throwing in the towel - and then it would be put on a dusty shelf somewhere. Then, a few years later, some enterprising nerd who made a fortune on the interwebs would buy the license from WotC, and we'd see a re-boot. And then, of course, we'd see yet another cycle of failure and D&D would be shelved for decades as an anachronism of the 20th century like VHS tapes and disco. But then, sometime in the 2060s or 2070s, you'd have the first wave of cybernetically-enhanced Gen Xers becoming centenarians and feeling nostalgic for their youth of imagination and wonder. "Remember when we used our imaginations and didn't just plug-in to programmed simulations of real experiences?" We'd see a renaissance of D&D which would become a cultural revolution. By the 22nd century the great AI consciousness called simply The Gygax would be the dominant force in human existence...But I don't think it will fail. And even if the tabletop RPG doesn't go "gangbusters," they've got this whole multi-platform approach, so we're likely to see movies, video games and such, so that the original RPG might end up being the loss-leader to the larger D&D franchise.</blockquote>

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