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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CapnZapp" data-source="post: 9059836" data-attributes="member: 12731">What works in 5E is the core balance between casters and warriors. It is, in my mind, completely superior overall to any other edition of D&D or Pathfinder, but there is ample room for improvement. What I would have liked is a new edition filling the biggest gaps in 5E.<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The game doesn't offer nearly enough customization for veteran gamers. By far the most pressing issue is: once you've decided your class and sub-class, that's basically it except for spell selection. 17 levels is much too many without a new major life path choice.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The game has completely abandoned the value of gold</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">WotC doesn't seem to have the self-confidence to revitalize the high levels</li> </ul>A 6th Edition where you start by...compressing most (if not all) level 12-19 non-spell abilities; giving them out over perhaps levels 9-12, and then inventing new actually powerful stuff to hand out at actual high levels. Either that, or admit defeat by making the PHB cover only levels 1-12. This does have one benefit: any subsequent book (to cover high-level play) would be judged on its ability to actually make high levels work. By bundling together high levels with the base levels, as WotC has done forever, they can hide mediocre high level rules in plain sight...adding at least a second tier to subclassing, so at level 10 or 12 or so you can branch out in a new direction, including ones suitable for more epic high level play... These should ideally be completely independent of your earlier choice of subclass and class!...re-issuing a new edition of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Item_Compendium" target="_blank">Magic Item Compendium</a> would go a loong way of making D&D useful for me without loads of homework</blockquote>

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