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<blockquote data-quote="Elvish Lore" data-source="post: 9377476" data-attributes="member: 48873">I really do think it's that exactly.&nbsp; Unless D&amp;D approaches some kind of fail state in terms of $$, there's little reason for WotC to change D&amp;D from its most popular edition. There's just no incentive to rock the boat. Certainly 'better' game design isn't it.They did this before when they wanted to reinvigorate D&amp;D sales coming out of 3.5 and we saw what happens -- people were fleeing D&amp;D because 4e felt like a different game to them and one they didn't like. 4e might have had better game design but that didn't matter. Majority of people didn't care for it.If 5.24 sales are flat, we'll see a 6e down the road that significantly deviates from 5e design. But if sales are decent - even if they're not stellar but merely decent -- we'll see yet another iteration of 5e in the 2030s.The good news is that little publishers like DC20 or MCDM have the opportunity to push D&amp;D-ish fantasy rpgs in interesting directions</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Elvish Lore, post: 9377476, member: 48873"] I really do think it's that exactly. Unless D&D approaches some kind of fail state in terms of $$, there's little reason for WotC to change D&D from its most popular edition. There's just no incentive to rock the boat. Certainly 'better' game design isn't it. They did this before when they wanted to reinvigorate D&D sales coming out of 3.5 and we saw what happens -- people were fleeing D&D because 4e felt like a different game to them and one they didn't like. 4e might have had better game design but that didn't matter. Majority of people didn't care for it. If 5.24 sales are flat, we'll see a 6e down the road that significantly deviates from 5e design. But if sales are decent - even if they're not stellar but merely decent -- we'll see yet another iteration of 5e in the 2030s. The good news is that little publishers like DC20 or MCDM have the opportunity to push D&D-ish fantasy rpgs in interesting directions [/QUOTE]

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