I hope 4.5 isn't called "4.5"

[booboo]

i don't buy buy service packs or upgrades for my software (new version yes some times) so i wont with my books. Also didn't buy the 3.5 books.

 

[WyzardWhately]

Too many people were angry at 3.5.

But we bought it anyway. *shrug*

 

[Agamon]

It was kinda interesting and unexpected when it was oD&D 0.5.

Then AD&D 1.5 was cool, because, you know, I was a kid, and new stuff is cool.

AD&D 2.5 obviously didn't do enough, because the game still sucked.

You can understand the uproar from D&D 3.5. People were getting fed up.

So I can understand the assumption that there will be a D&D 4.5. Not a shot in the dark at all. I mean, look at the history. We're hooped.

 

[mach1.9pants]

If I have a kid I'm going to call him Doug McCrae 2.0

A bit like Colin McRae (R.I.P) Rally 3, at least he won't be the only one...and what if it is a girl?

 

[pawsplay]

There won't be a 4.5, so that should solve that.

Well... here's hoping they get it right the first time, then!

 

[delericho]

I'd bet the next revision of D&D will be called '5th edition', whether it's a 1e->2e/3e->3.5e-style cleanup and tweak exercise, or an OD&D->1e/2e->3e/3.5e->4e style major update.

Agreed.

And won't be out before 2013 at the absolute earliest.

This I'm not so sure about.

In the event 4e fails utterly, and someone else ends up controlling D&D in a couple of years (unlikely, but possible), I expect the new owners/licensors to put out 5th edition as soon after as they are able - which means we could see 5e in 2011 or earlier.

In the event 4e is only a moderate success, but we quickly find some major and systematic flaws (more likely, I think), I would expect WotC to want to do a 4.5e in 2011 or so... but they'll call it 5e, and probably push it back to 2012 or even 2013.

If 4e does as WotC expect and hope, then I would expect to see 5e in 2016. Scott Rouse has said that WotC's market research has suggested the optimum time between editions is 8 years, and I believe they will follow that.

 

[Ranger REG]

You can understand the uproar from D&D 3.5. People were getting fed up.

Meh. A revision was bound to happen. What sucks is the timing. Released just three years after 3.0e. That and the flip-flopping of the polymorph rules.

And now we're getting 4e just eight years after 3.0e.

 

[Stogoe]

8 years seems fine between editions to me.

And 3.5 is a vastly better ruleset than 3.0. I honestly don't get the hate. But maybe I'm not 'in' the game enough to get why putting out splatbooks or making the rules work better is some sort of violation against nature.

 

[Steely Dan]

I vote for:


4th Edition Dungeons&Dragons II: The Revenge!

 

[cougent]

One thing I hope comes out of the new edition is the death of this decimal nonsense in edition titles. Let's call 4th edition "4e" instead of "4.0", and when the revision comes out, let's call it "4r" or something, but please, please, PLEASE not "4.5".

That is all.

I don't have a link, but I could swear I remember reading someone from WotC (Scott Rouse I think) saying (paraphrased) 'We learned our lesson with 3.5 and we will never do that again.' Whether that means we get 5E faster, or they just do more "alternate rules" books or whatever, but I don't expect to ever see a ".5" version again.