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<blockquote data-quote="Shiroiken" data-source="post: 7992903" data-attributes="member: 6775477">It is unlikely that this will be the last edition of D&amp;D, as nothing lasts forever. However, I think it will be the longest run of any prior D&amp;D edition, since at this point it's not slowing down. Likely a new edition will be needed for either economic reasons or bloat. The core rulebooks are always the best selling items of any edition, an while 5E is growing, eventually those sales will drop, giving WotC encouragement to consider a new edition. While 5E has managed bloat extraordinarily well, it WILL eventually become hard to manage, and when that happens, a new edition is usually the simplest solution.Ideally the new edition should be backwards comparable. The best description of this would be the change from 1E to 2E, where there were some classes that were dropped. However, it was not that hard to tweak the missing 1E classes to fit with the rule changes of 2E. Both 3E and 4E were radical changes from AD&amp;D and each other, making it nearly impossible to convert character between editions. 5E was also not backwards compatible, but holds enough similarities to prior editions that a few characters from prior editions can be converted.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Shiroiken, post: 7992903, member: 6775477"] It is unlikely that this will be the last edition of D&D, as nothing lasts forever. However, I think it will be the longest run of any prior D&D edition, since at this point it's not slowing down. Likely a new edition will be needed for either economic reasons or bloat. The core rulebooks are always the best selling items of any edition, an while 5E is growing, eventually those sales will drop, giving WotC encouragement to consider a new edition. While 5E has managed bloat extraordinarily well, it WILL eventually become hard to manage, and when that happens, a new edition is usually the simplest solution. Ideally the new edition should be backwards comparable. The best description of this would be the change from 1E to 2E, where there were some classes that were dropped. However, it was not that hard to tweak the missing 1E classes to fit with the rule changes of 2E. Both 3E and 4E were radical changes from AD&D and each other, making it nearly impossible to convert character between editions. 5E was also not backwards compatible, but holds enough similarities to prior editions that a few characters from prior editions can be converted. [/QUOTE]

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