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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ForeverSlayer" data-source="post: 5703588" data-attributes="member: 91812">Essentially you are saying "wrong direction" from a pure opinionated point of view. One thing you have to understand is if they are truly working on 5th edition, making it like 4th edition would be absolutely pointless. If that was the case then you would be better off calling it 4.5. In other words anything that Wizards puts out is going to be a step backwards for you if it's not 4th edition or something almost exactly like it. Also, there is something that we need to take a good look at but won't really know the conclusion until later.  What it all boils down to is preference and how people want their favorite edition to stick around forever and have all other editions based off of that one. I personally think editions of D&D only last as much as the majority of people have an interest in it. Now if 5th edition rolls next year, or even the year after that, 4th edition will have been the shortest edition of D&D yet. Now, if something works great you would think that a company would stick with it for as long as they can. Now I believe they have but I find that 4th edition may be fading fast and may have been for quite some time. Now of course this is all speculation but I look at these articles as a "what's to come" kind of thing.Now whether you like 3rd edition or not, Monte Cook is a successful game designer. Wizards would not have hired him on if they didn't know this. Maybe Wizards feels like 4th edition is a step in the wrong direction and they want to change the direction to something more suited for what they feel is the right direction. At the end of the day it's all about what you the individual prefer and you just pray to god that Wizard's ends up on your side.</blockquote>

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