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<blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 5774734" data-attributes="member: 158">You're certainly entitled NOT to board the &quot;D&amp;D Next&quot; train. Me Personally? I've seen some people (not you per se) hold the &quot;no less than 10 years&quot; torch between new editions, and I see it as an unrealistic standard, because those original 10-years gaps between 1E, 2E, and 3E were totally unintentional by TSR -- they happened because TSR was in turmoil that interrupted the introduction of a new edition.In 1985, Gary (having mentioned this in later forum posts) recognized that, partially due to the trouble with the Blumes and Lorraine Williams, that TSR was in some money trouble, and was fully intending to release his own rules update, not only because the game needed it, but to help get some cash influx going, too. Unearthed Arcana was a stopgap to get some sales going.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unearthed_Arcana" target="_blank">Unearthed Arcana - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</a>Soon after, Gary lost his controlling interest in the company, and was ousted.According to a later interview with Skip Williams, the TSR designers had been accumulating &quot;3rd edition&quot; material for years, right up to the 1996 bankruptcy. Had there not been such deep financial trouble, instead of the &quot;black book reprint&quot; of 2E we saw in 1995, we might well have seen an Advanced Dungeons and Dragons 3rd edition&quot; instead.So in two demonstrable cases, from accounts of people who were major movers and shakers at the time, There were full intentions to make new editions 5 to 6 years into the current edition of that time, before circumstances pulled the rug out.While it's nice to think that a decade between every version of the game is something you can count on, Five years between editions not only realistic, it's in par with many other RPG publishers out there.Heck, I used to have a washing machine that lasted my parents for 20 years -- heck, I'm lucky if I could find a car that would last five years without major repairs. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Henry, post: 5774734, member: 158"] You're certainly entitled NOT to board the "D&D Next" train. Me Personally? I've seen some people (not you per se) hold the "no less than 10 years" torch between new editions, and I see it as an unrealistic standard, because those original 10-years gaps between 1E, 2E, and 3E were totally unintentional by TSR -- they happened because TSR was in turmoil that interrupted the introduction of a new edition. In 1985, Gary (having mentioned this in later forum posts) recognized that, partially due to the trouble with the Blumes and Lorraine Williams, that TSR was in some money trouble, and was fully intending to release his own rules update, not only because the game needed it, but to help get some cash influx going, too. Unearthed Arcana was a stopgap to get some sales going. [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unearthed_Arcana]Unearthed Arcana - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/url] Soon after, Gary lost his controlling interest in the company, and was ousted. According to a later interview with Skip Williams, the TSR designers had been accumulating "3rd edition" material for years, right up to the 1996 bankruptcy. Had there not been such deep financial trouble, instead of the "black book reprint" of 2E we saw in 1995, we might well have seen an Advanced Dungeons and Dragons 3rd edition" instead. So in two demonstrable cases, from accounts of people who were major movers and shakers at the time, There were full intentions to make new editions 5 to 6 years into the current edition of that time, before circumstances pulled the rug out. While it's nice to think that a decade between every version of the game is something you can count on, Five years between editions not only realistic, it's in par with many other RPG publishers out there.Heck, I used to have a washing machine that lasted my parents for 20 years -- heck, I'm lucky if I could find a car that would last five years without major repairs. :) [/QUOTE]

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