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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shemeska" data-source="post: 5688310" data-attributes="member: 11697">This will be interesting. Assuming that they're now (or have been for a while) working on a 5e, they're in a really awkward position regarding what sort of thing to release to try to reclaim anything resembling their previous era market share.If they release something more in line with pre-4e design notions, will they regain much of the 3.x crowd that either went with PF or never stopped playing 3.x? The ship may have sailed there unless they reverse course hard and gut many of the 4e'isms. Yet if they do that they risk starting Nerd Rage War II and having the people who didn't like 3.x and adore 4e feeling betrayed - and based on comments over on the WotC forums a number of people are already lighting torches and grabbing pitchforks in the event that WotC "backslides".Mind you, this doesn't really impact me much. I've got a preferred edition that I play, which WotC doesn't make, so the route they go has little influence on my gaming at this juncture. Yet if anyone could find a solution for WotC that doesn't involve them losing even more of a market they splintered, Monte could, assuming he would have the creative freedom to abandon things that failed to gain traction in the RPG marketplace regardless of internal feelings at WotC about some of those design elements. It'll be difficult if not impossible.Would be hard to get my money though, unless for instance they gave Monte a budget and let him do a 5e Planescape true to the original setting, its metaplot and design elements without having to adhere to 4e PoL at all. Yeah, that I'd throw money at WotC for.</blockquote>

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