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<blockquote data-quote="RyanD" data-source="post: 3280609" data-attributes="member: 3312">I am of two minds about &quot;4th Edition&quot;.First, I think that WotC may, at some point, create a product called &quot;4th Edition&quot;, but that product will look just like 3rd Edition with a series of clear rules improvements &amp; tweaks; essentially, a 3.5 on steroids.&nbsp; To me, that's a &quot;marketing release&quot;.Second, I think WotC may actually try to make &quot;Dungeons &amp; Dragons&quot; mean &quot;a miniatures game with roleplaying&quot;, and I could see them creating a whole new way of presenting D&amp;D in a miniatures-centric way that would be worth calling the line &quot;4th Edition&quot;.&nbsp; To me, that's a &quot;new design release&quot;.I think there's a good chance, probably 50/50, that we'll see a 3.75 kind of release in 2007 or 2008.&nbsp; A new set of core books, revised, but basically the same game we already have.&nbsp; I think that product will not be called &quot;4th Edition&quot;, nor will it be marketed as 4th Edition.&nbsp; There are powerful forces inside WotC that believe (not without quite a bit of market research and product experience to back them up) that gamers will buy a &quot;revision&quot; to a games' core rules every 3-4 years and that not inducing those purchases is just leaving money on the table.What I'd like to see is a &quot;4th Edition&quot; which hybridizes MMORPG play and tabletop play, with an RPGA moderation facility, that uses on-line tools to create characters and scenarios, and focuses on bringing the best elements of the tabletop and the digital environments together under the most powerful brand in fantasy adventure gaming.&nbsp; If you ever see a notice that WotC has hired me back to run RPGs, that's the direction I'll be looking to move.Ryan</blockquote>

[QUOTE="RyanD, post: 3280609, member: 3312"] I am of two minds about "4th Edition". First, I think that WotC may, at some point, create a product called "4th Edition", but that product will look just like 3rd Edition with a series of clear rules improvements & tweaks; essentially, a 3.5 on steroids. To me, that's a "marketing release". Second, I think WotC may actually try to make "Dungeons & Dragons" mean "a miniatures game with roleplaying", and I could see them creating a whole new way of presenting D&D in a miniatures-centric way that would be worth calling the line "4th Edition". To me, that's a "new design release". I think there's a good chance, probably 50/50, that we'll see a 3.75 kind of release in 2007 or 2008. A new set of core books, revised, but basically the same game we already have. I think that product will not be called "4th Edition", nor will it be marketed as 4th Edition. There are powerful forces inside WotC that believe (not without quite a bit of market research and product experience to back them up) that gamers will buy a "revision" to a games' core rules every 3-4 years and that not inducing those purchases is just leaving money on the table. What I'd [b]like[/b] to see is a "4th Edition" which hybridizes MMORPG play and tabletop play, with an RPGA moderation facility, that uses on-line tools to create characters and scenarios, and focuses on bringing the best elements of the tabletop and the digital environments together under the most powerful brand in fantasy adventure gaming. If you ever see a notice that WotC has hired me back to run RPGs, that's the direction I'll be looking to move. Ryan [/QUOTE]

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