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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Korgoth" data-source="post: 3813992" data-attributes="member: 49613">Right now, based on the magical power of my gut [Disclaimer: rumblings of the magic gut are not to be construed as legal, financial or moral advice and are for entertainment purposes only], I think that 4E is not going to succeed.  My off-the-wall guess is that the initial core book sales will be high, driven by hope, hype and curiosity.  I think that a small minority of people will be genuinely happy with how it plays and will find it to be their "perfect game".  I think that a larger group will play it for a while hoping that their disappointment eventually turns into joy (which I don't think it will).In the aftermath of this, the magic gut says that many players will return to whatever edition of D&D they most enjoy, the one that most defines "D&D" for them.  For many people, this will be 3E.  At some point I expect to see one or more attempts at a 3.75 by a third party (hopefully, for the sake of 3E fans [which doesn't include me], not Mongoose) which may contain some elements of the 4E SRD.  At which point we're starting to get outside of the magic gut's chrono-range, so it's hard to say what Hasbro's move would be.  5E would probably be the smart move in that case, but it's just too remote even to speculate.</blockquote>