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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 5513687" data-attributes="member: 82106">Personally I don't think 5e is anything beyond a restless thought in some game designers heads (certainly there must be idle discussions in WotC HQ in spare moments). Heck, there's doubtless still a pretty good inventory of 4e stuff out there. Essentials is billed as evergreen, surely they have a stockpile of those things. Think about it this way, if 4e is selling pretty well, then there's little incentive to release a new edition. If it is selling terribly, then there's little incentive for Hasbro to run out and dump a lot of money into 5e when they just put a good chunk into rolling out a 4e that is still actively exploring the 21st century RPG landscape, and why would they think a new edition would be a bigger success? Unless someone over there has a VERY good story, backed by a lot of solid research, that provides some extra specially low risk roadmap to greater profit it isn't likely to happen.You get new editions when an existing popular edition reaches end of life and tails off, or when the market has changed enough or grown enough to require a refresh. You don't get new editions right after an edition that is either very successful or very unsuccessful. At least not like this, instead you get a new owner of the product, and maybe THEY do a new edition simply because why else would you buy a product except to snazz it up and sell it more? I don't think 4e falls into any of these scenarios. They'll duke it out with what they've got for a few years with PF, build up DDI and explore its potential, and then maybe do a new edition. That might be 4 or 5 years from now. Could be longer. Could be 3 years, maybe, but I doubt it. I think they planned on 4e lasting a while.</blockquote>

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