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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 9459125" data-attributes="member: 7006">My personal guess is that if/when we get an eventual 6E, its design will be predicated on how successful their 3DVTT has been and whether the &quot;next edition&quot; will be designed to be even more integrated into whatever works best in that program.&nbsp; After a couple years of using the 3DVTT the designers might discover that there are pain-points in the game on the VTT for which a new tabletop game engine for D&amp;D would smooth things out.&nbsp;&nbsp; Although to be honest... I think if those pain-points are at all actually manageable and the so-called &quot;evergreen&quot; foundation of the 5E game works out well for the VTT and it generates the kind of cash flow WotC is hoping for... then I don't think there's any reason to believe WotC won't continue to just keep that fifth edition foundation of the game in place and instead continue to publish revisions to it every bunch of years rather than do a full 6E &quot;game edition update&quot;.As far as &quot;wooing&quot; people back?&nbsp; If I had to guess... they probably no longer see the need, especially if the 3DVTT ends up being truly &quot;system neutral&quot; as they claim.&nbsp; Because at that point, anyone who left WotC's Dungeons &amp; Dragons 5th Edition to play some other game could in theory play that other game on the 3DVTT as well if they wanted (and some of them actually might).&nbsp; Which means those people would still potentially be customers and thus wouldn't have really necessarily &quot;left&quot; as it were.&nbsp; People prefer to play Level Up or 4E online?&nbsp; They might be able to use the 3DVTT to do it.&nbsp; So those folks could throw in their bucks and still be customers... and at that point there's nothing left to &quot;woo&quot;.And the people who don't come back at all?&nbsp; That's always been something I think TSR/WotC has always understood to be the case, and they've for the most part accepted it. And that's much easier for them to do so now that a lot of that &quot;non-D&amp;D 5E&quot; material is available for those folks on DMs Guild to be bought anyway (and thus getting WotC their sheckles for that stuff too.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 9459125, member: 7006"] My personal guess is that if/when we get an eventual 6E, its design will be predicated on how successful their 3DVTT has been and whether the "next edition" will be designed to be even more integrated into whatever works best in that program. After a couple years of using the 3DVTT the designers might discover that there are pain-points in the game on the VTT for which a new tabletop game engine for D&D would smooth things out. Although to be honest... I think if those pain-points are at all actually manageable and the so-called "evergreen" foundation of the 5E game works out well for the VTT and it generates the kind of cash flow WotC is hoping for... then I don't think there's any reason to believe WotC won't continue to just keep that fifth edition foundation of the game in place and instead continue to publish revisions to it every bunch of years rather than do a full 6E "game edition update". As far as "wooing" people back? If I had to guess... they probably no longer see the need, especially if the 3DVTT ends up being truly "system neutral" as they claim. Because at that point, anyone who left WotC's Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition to play some other game could in theory play that other game on the 3DVTT as well if they wanted (and some of them actually might). Which means those people would still potentially be customers and thus wouldn't have really necessarily "left" as it were. People prefer to play Level Up or 4E online? They might be able to use the 3DVTT to do it. So those folks could throw in their bucks and still be customers... and at that point there's nothing left to "woo". And the people who don't come back at all? That's always been something I think TSR/WotC has always understood to be the case, and they've for the most part accepted it. And that's much easier for them to do so now that a lot of that "non-D&D 5E" material is available for those folks on DMs Guild to be bought anyway (and thus getting WotC their sheckles for that stuff too.) [/QUOTE]

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