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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jer" data-source="post: 8588419" data-attributes="member: 19857">Only if you hang around folks like us.  The folks in meatspace I know who play D&D but aren't obsessive about it don't see any of that as anything other than "cool - more cool stuff!"Keeping the same trade dress, making sure they don't touch the actual core rules (you know, everything from chapter 5 to chapter 9 in the PHB) combined with explicit marketing in in a way that makes it a cool addition to the game and not a replacement would be enough I think to keep those folks on board.(The changes we've seen so far are basically less than the changes that Unearthed Arcana added to the game back in the day. The 4e comparison to me is off because they changed so much of the presentation - trade dress, fonts used in the books, style of presenting classes - that it felt like the 3.5 rollout - and NOTHING should ever feel like the 3.5 rollout again.  That's not to say that they couldn't screw this up, but right now they have a strong incentive to not make this Anniversary Edition a jumping off point for the huge numbers of folks they've added to the player base and not a lot of incentive to try to upsell their player base to a brand new edition, unlike where they were when Essentials came out.)</blockquote>