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<blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 4617987" data-attributes="member: 22424">Which rather begs the question: why didn't you ask that?Personally, I think there's some justification in there being a 4.5e at some point (not so soon, though). The game has been through such a massive rewrite that it was inevitable that there would be teething problems, some of them quite bad. And, in a couple of years it is likely WotC will have taken the game in some directions that they didn't foresee before the launch. So, there could be some justification with doing a 4.5e, to clean up the problem areas, to roll concepts that have become important into the core, and perhaps to expand the game (as the 3.5e core expanded on that of 3e).In answer to your initial question, though, my preference would be for a 3.5e-derived 5e, possibly done by a different company (but certainly done by a different team, at least in part).I don't think that is likely, though. I think if 4e does get cancelled, it will probably be due to the Digital Initiative finally being written off and taking the game with it, or due to Hasbro having a particularly rough time and deciding to &quot;focus on our core brands&quot;. Either way, I think Hasbro would hold the IP for licensing reasons, and would probably not be interested in investing in the development of any new edition of the game. In other words, I think that if 4e dies prematurely, D&amp;D probably dies with it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="delericho, post: 4617987, member: 22424"] Which rather begs the question: why didn't you ask that? Personally, I think there's some justification in there being a 4.5e at some point (not so soon, though). The game has been through such a massive rewrite that it was inevitable that there would be teething problems, some of them quite bad. And, in a couple of years it is likely WotC will have taken the game in some directions that they didn't foresee before the launch. So, there could be some justification with doing a 4.5e, to clean up the problem areas, to roll concepts that have become important into the core, and perhaps to expand the game (as the 3.5e core expanded on that of 3e). In answer to your initial question, though, my preference would be for a 3.5e-derived 5e, possibly done by a different company (but certainly done by a different team, at least in part). I don't think that is likely, though. I think if 4e does get cancelled, it will probably be due to the Digital Initiative finally being written off and taking the game with it, or due to Hasbro having a particularly rough time and deciding to "focus on our core brands". Either way, I think Hasbro would hold the IP for licensing reasons, and would probably not be interested in investing in the development of any new edition of the game. In other words, I think that if 4e dies prematurely, D&D probably dies with it. [/QUOTE]

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