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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mercurius" data-source="post: 5419564" data-attributes="member: 59082">I hate to say it, but WotC doesn't care about making OD&D, 1E, 2E, 3E (and not to mention BECMI) fans equally happy or unhappy. Everyone pre-3E combined is probably a relatively small percentage of the player base, even smaller in terms of what they buy.The real key would be to make both 3E and 4E fans happy and attract a new generation of players. Quite frankly I'm not sure that WotC currently has the creative juices for it.Maybe, maybe not. I think it is possible but would be very, very difficult to do. One can dream, though...  Yes, and the fact that it hasn't happened is one of the reasons that I question the "creative juices" of WotC. Of course the Hero Builder's Guidebook brings a ray of hope.  Maybe, but that sort of approach has been proven to be un-lucrative. My sense is that they'll feel things out with Hero Builder's and then if that takes off, expand from there. One thing that no one seems to be taking into account, or at least mentioning, is that WotC itself may not know when 5E will come out. Or rather, it probably depends upon various factors, what the profit trajectory is, etc. They could be thinking 3-5 years, depending upon sales in the next 1-2. If sales dip precipitously in 2011 and don't come back up in early 2012, we could get a 5E announcement at GenCon of that year then 5E in 2013. If things improve or at least plateau a bit, that could be pushed back another year or two.It may be that DDI right now will form the basis for 5E DDI, that we will start to see transition products like Book of Nine Swords was from 3.5 to 4E. As many have said, 5E may not be so distinctly marked as "5E". It might be a more gradual transition through continual updates and changes to DDI. Eventually they will want to make a big announcement and a new line of core books, but they might sneak up on us a bit. Yes, as we saw with Pathfinder.</blockquote>

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