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<blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 9223960" data-attributes="member: 6790260">As I mentioned above, though, you need a balance between novelty (at least as far as D&amp;D is concerned, per Umbran's above post) and stability. I think folks can generally agree that the 2000s had too many launches back to back. 3e to 3.5e to 4e was too much in only a few years--a new edition or near-edition every 4-5 years from 2000 to 2014 is not good for the game. 15 years or a bit less, on the other hand, seems to be about the point at which folks start to tire with a ruleset. I think that's a big part of what made people receptive to 5e when it dropped. Pathfinder 1e had become long in the tooth and more than a little sprawling.I definitely think that, should we be having a similar conversation in another 8-10 years, it would be a good time for a proper new edition, not just the &quot;it's a revised edition but we don't want to call it that&quot; that is the appallingly-named &quot;One D&amp;D&quot; playtest. Not just because, as I have made quite clear, I'm not really the audience for 5e and thus it would be nice to feel included. More importantly, though, because at that point we'll have been working under a single, largely-unchanged framework for enough time that someone could have been born after 5e launched and an adult before hypothetical 6e did.Nothing designed by human hands is eternal, and that includes game designs.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="EzekielRaiden, post: 9223960, member: 6790260"] As I mentioned above, though, you need a balance between novelty (at least as far as D&D is concerned, per Umbran's above post) and stability. I think folks can generally agree that the 2000s had too many launches back to back. 3e to 3.5e to 4e was too much in only a few years--a new edition or near-edition every 4-5 years from 2000 to 2014 is [I]not[/I] good for the game. 15 years or a bit less, on the other hand, seems to be about the point at which folks start to tire with a ruleset. I think that's a big part of what made people receptive to 5e when it dropped. Pathfinder 1e had become long in the tooth and more than a little sprawling. I definitely think that, should we be having a similar conversation in another 8-10 years, it would be a good time for a proper new edition, not just the "it's a revised edition but we don't want to call it that" that is the appallingly-named "One D&D" playtest. Not just because, as I have made quite clear, I'm not really the audience for 5e and thus it would be nice to feel included. More importantly, though, because at that point we'll have been working under a single, largely-unchanged framework for enough time that someone could have been born [I]after[/I] 5e launched and an adult [I]before[/I] hypothetical 6e did. Nothing designed by human hands is eternal, and that includes game designs. [/QUOTE]

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