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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 8546090" data-attributes="member: 1465">Judging by the huge sales everybody's always talking about, there seems to be no big financial/economical reason for a new edition.It doesn't really matter that some of us grognard are "getting tired" with the current edition, when we're already into the hobby since a long time we will more or less fuel the hobby with the same money, whether they release new books for the current edition or for an entirely new one (worst that can happen is we might want to try another RPG altogether, but if WotC itself released books with variant systems and fantasy settings, this would still be a lot in their own hands). On the other hand, newcomers almost always buy first whatever is the current edition, because they don't have yet much parameters for comparison, and a lot of the PHBs still sold today are likely bought by new players.I'd rather think that WotC feels compelled to publish something big in 2024 only because it's the 50th anniversary, and it would feel a bit underwhelming not to do so.And the other reason for WotC wanting to update the game, is to follow social and cultural trends. We've already seen it with new approaches to races and alignment, in more rules terms they might also decide they want to simplify some areas and complicate others, if they are aware of certain trends in the gaming industry for example. This doesn't seem to me enough to call it a new edition entirely, but an incremental progress, and it CAN be backwards compatible if done right.</blockquote>

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