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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sword of Spirit" data-source="post: 7710615" data-attributes="member: 6677017">Dark Sun is extremely unlikely because it needs psionics, and finished psionic rules by then aren't highly likely (given that previous statements from Mike Mearls implied at least one more playtest after the one we just got). Now, I could be wrong on that (I was wrong on the PHB making the summer 2014 release date), but that's the way to bet. Indicators that I might be wrong on that would be if we see a psionics feedback survey within 3 weeks, and another playtest out before the end of May. That would give them time to burn the midnight oil and perhaps have the finished ruleset out by September. I wouldn't count on it though--it still seems unlikely.Since they still haven't figured out what form to publish the big book of mechanics in, it is also not highly likely, though I think it's possibly more likely than psionics, simply because they probably aren't us multiple design iterations to playtest on it. If they get in the rest of the stuff in the next few months, they could have it ready to go by November."Dust" could be anything. We're probably stretching to assume there is any environmental connection to it. More likely it's about undead.This is the one that came to my mind. Since it wouldn't be a second adventure, perhaps they are considering a Sigil "setting" book as the format in which to put out the new mechanics. What they are very unlikely to do is put out a big book of crunch without some story or lore connection, because that violates their marketing strategy. If on the other hand, they used Sigil as the place that pulls together stuff from all over the multiverse, then they could also include a bunch of otherwise unrelated crunch, and even include races and subclasses specific to various D&D settings.That would be pretty darn cool, and fit in with their marketing style.I'll raise you that and say I don't think we'll see a 6e for at least 13 years or so. If it were up to Mike Mearls, we might never get another edition, and that would be fine with me. That said, I think we probably will eventually get one more edition of D&D, and if they do it right they can then cease rewriting the game and just focus on continued expansion for the rest of the lifetime of D&D.</blockquote>

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