D&D 5E I think D&D Next should have been called D&D Last

[DEFCON 1]

So long as people keep buying the game... there will never be an end of the publishing cycle. If there's a market for it and your costs to make it can be covered by the profits when you sell it... D&D will get published ad infinitum.

 

[Morrus]

I really do, if this version doesn't do what they intend it to do, it should be the LAST version of D&D ever, NO MORE! I really am sick of all the versions of D&D and the retro-clones, it's just too much anymore.

You don't have to buy them all, you know.

 

[Warbringer]

You don't have to buy them all, you know.

You speak for yourself ... I don't know if it's loyalty or obsessive compulsion but I have all the rule books from all editions from red box on ....

 

[Szatany]

Call it D&D XP

That would make the 6th game the D&D Vista, and 7th game...D&D 7.
I think we're onto something

 

[Remathilis]

That actually seems to be how they're thinking about it--Mearls mentioned at GenCon that foreseeable future editions would be more like 3.5--incremental updates with errata, incorporation of popular elements from non-core products into future versions of the core, etc.

Wasn't that 4e? I mean I recall re-buying the PHB for 3e about 3 years after it came out...

 

[Man in the Funny Hat]

I really do, if this version doesn't do what they intend it to do, it should be the LAST version of D&D ever, NO MORE! I really am sick of all the versions of D&D and the retro-clones, it's just too much anymore.

This really needs to be D&D LAST!

Umm... so don't buy/play any more?

 

[flyingcircus]

Stop buying them, then.

I haven't bought anything new from them since they announced 4e was to be no more.

 

[flyingcircus]

Oh they will probably keep on making more no matter what, it will be like ROCKY 5000 only it will be D&D 1000th edition, or D&D the MEGA edition.

 

[Morrus]

I haven't bought anything new from them since they announced 4e was to be no more.

Well, that's up to you. Seems a bit off to want companies to stop making products that others may want to buy just because you personally don't. I mean, I hate some flavours of ice cream, but I don't demand the supermarkets stop selling them. I don't play Warhammer, but I'm not demanding Games Workshop stop making it.

 

[Tequila Sunrise]

Oh they will probably keep on making more no matter what, it will be like ROCKY 5000 only it will be D&D 1000th edition, or D&D the MEGA edition.

That's exactly what's going to happen. 5e hasn't even hit the shelves yet, and 6e is already a predestined certainty.

So I wouldn't hold my breath.