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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 9416141" data-attributes="member: 6801228">In all brutal honesty (and using this just as a jumping off point), I don't see it as unlikely that they were correct in their evergreen assessment. 5e, for all that everyone has their own problems with it, works as a fundamental game system. With the massive explosion of Actual Play and the cultural momentum that DnD has gained there is a very real chance to consider DnD as equivalent to a degree to Pokemon. The fundamentals no longer need to change. If you stop and look at it from a company perspective, 1st edition was unique, 2nd edition was an attempt to improve it... then TSR died. WoTC came in and created 3rd edition, bringing in a lot of changes but for them it was their first version of the game. But it never achieved massive popularity, so they tried 4e and things were misstepped. So they went with 5e. And it is the biggest version of DnD ever printed, spawning more media and more interest than it ever has before. To even consider a true rules overhaul and completely new systems, DnD would have to fade back into obscurity and other TTRPGs would have to be more successful than it. I personally think that speculation on "what does the next version of DnD look like" is misplaced, because THIS version is likely to be doing quite well and they are going to keep with it.</blockquote>