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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Riastlin" data-source="post: 5489636" data-attributes="member: 94022">Good point about exploding d20's.  Shadowrun used exploding d6's so the discrepancy was much less severe unless you managed to keep rolling 6s.   As for how long until 5ed?  I don't know.  Certainly I think that they will want to give some time for Essentials to sell and I think that they will also want to get their online tools and DDi base up and running again.  Seems as though it would be a bit of a waste to spend all this time designing and testing the VTT for 4ed and then turn around and release 5ed next year.  Besides, that would also likely mean an announcement of 5ed at GenCon this year which would at best be right after releasing the finished version of VTT. My guess would be no earlier than 2013 for 5ed, and likely not until 2014.  As I said, I think that they would want to at least give people a chance to run through the Epic tier first, if for no other reason than to see if they should go back to a 20 level system or keep the 30 level setup.  Of course, the bigger problem here is simply the lack of support for the epic tier which I think is the main sticking point for a lot of groups.  The DM's workload increases dramatically when you hit Epic tier because unless you run E1-E3 or Scales of War, you are pretty much reduced to designing everything, including monsters in many cases, yourself.</blockquote>