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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Urriak Uruk" data-source="post: 8297707" data-attributes="member: 7015558">Yeah, what people don't understand about 6E, is that there's only 2 reasons to start developing it. 1 is if the money runs out, 2 is if the rules run out.The first isn't happening (the gold mine hasn't run dry); 5E is perhaps the most successful edition (certainly more than 3E or 4E), and is having year-over-year growth. Essentially, the next book is selling more than the last book. From that perspective, there is no financial or business reason to start a new edition; in fact if it's ever suggested, I'm sure the sales team would actively protest. "Don't fix what's not broken!"The second (they run out of rules to publish) also doesn't seem to be happening, though people are interpreting lineages and these multi-class subclasses as if they are. Yes, the rules team are experimenting with new ways of revising 5E rules. That said, there's clearly a lot of books that can be made to expand the rules of 5E, chiefly through the vehicle of settings. Dark Sun can introduce a lot of psionics options. Spelljammer can introduce ship combat and navigation. Birthright can introduce kingdom management and warfare. This doesn't include new settings, that D&D has just demonstrated they can do by jointly creating new worlds with Magic the Gathering.Anyway, I don't expect 6E to come until sales dip, or until Disney buys Hasbro (who knows what will happen first).</blockquote>