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<blockquote data-quote="UngainlyTitan" data-source="post: 5417939" data-attributes="member: 28487">I suppose that WoTC could announce 5e at any time but I do not see it happening anytime soon. I think they are putting a lot of effort into online tools and DDI right now and changing editions before that is completed and out the door would be madness. It would pretty much kill DDI. For that matter the fans would not wear it, the edition wars still rumble on a little and that would have to fade for a successful marketing campaign.&nbsp;From my own experience of the VTT and the other online tools, they are a couple of year out from final version in my opinion.Basically in my opinion the requirements for a successful launch of 5e are;All the 4e tools have to be out there in DDi and in a intgrated fashion.In that Characters created in the CB would have to be importable into the VTT , the same with monsters. The campaing management tools (what ever they are; at least an encounter builder and journalling capacity) would need to be in place and we would have to have some history to see how stuff like player/DM is and third party stuff is handled.&nbsp;They are from 2 to 4 years away from that at the moment.&nbsp;Then the electronic tools to support 5e need to be in place from the get go or no-ne will adpot, having being spoiled on the 4e tools.We alsready have people refusing to create essentials characters by hand.&nbsp;While, in 5 years the mass paperback market may not have been replaced by the eReader, the winning format will porbably be known and the end of the mass paperback market will be visible. &nbsp;So Wizards amy go books plus electronic, or electronic plus books or a mix of both, or they may go electronic plus box sets full of coloured plastic.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="UngainlyTitan, post: 5417939, member: 28487"] I suppose that WoTC could announce 5e at any time but I do not see it happening anytime soon. I think they are putting a lot of effort into online tools and DDI right now and changing editions before that is completed and out the door would be madness. It would pretty much kill DDI. For that matter the fans would not wear it, the edition wars still rumble on a little and that would have to fade for a successful marketing campaign. From my own experience of the VTT and the other online tools, they are a couple of year out from final version in my opinion. Basically in my opinion the requirements for a successful launch of 5e are; All the 4e tools have to be out there in DDi and in a intgrated fashion. In that Characters created in the CB would have to be importable into the VTT , the same with monsters. The campaing management tools (what ever they are; at least an encounter builder and journalling capacity) would need to be in place and we would have to have some history to see how stuff like player/DM is and third party stuff is handled. They are from 2 to 4 years away from that at the moment. Then the electronic tools to support 5e need to be in place from the get go or no-ne will adpot, having being spoiled on the 4e tools. We alsready have people refusing to create essentials characters by hand. While, in 5 years the mass paperback market may not have been replaced by the eReader, the winning format will porbably be known and the end of the mass paperback market will be visible. So Wizards amy go books plus electronic, or electronic plus books or a mix of both, or they may go electronic plus box sets full of coloured plastic. [/QUOTE]

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