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<blockquote data-quote="Nathaniel Lee" data-source="post: 8181375" data-attributes="member: 6948827">In all honesty, I don't see how other RPGs approach this coming into play at all since D&amp;D effectively transcends the RPG space, a game that's creeping into &quot;media empire&quot; territory and is backed by a large corporation. The closest thing to it in the space is Pathfinder, which went the &quot;whole new version that isn't backwards compatible&quot; route that has splintered their fan base, something that Wizards has repeatedly indicated that they're not willing to do.I agree that whenever they choose to move on to a new edition, they'll try to utilize this strategy to some degree so there's a degree of backward compatibility there, but my point wasn't that there would never be a 6th edition of the game but rather that it wouldn't be coming anytime soon because it wouldn't make any sense at all while the game is still printing money for them.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Nathaniel Lee, post: 8181375, member: 6948827"] In all honesty, I don't see how other RPGs approach this coming into play at all since D&D effectively transcends the RPG space, a game that's creeping into "media empire" territory and is backed by a large corporation. The closest thing to it in the space is Pathfinder, which went the "whole new version that isn't backwards compatible" route that has splintered their fan base, something that Wizards has repeatedly indicated that they're not willing to do. I agree that whenever they choose to move on to a new edition, they'll try to utilize this strategy to some degree so there's a degree of backward compatibility there, but my point wasn't that there would [I]never[/I] be a 6th edition of the game but rather that it wouldn't be coming anytime soon because it wouldn't make any sense at all while the game is still printing money for them. [/QUOTE]

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