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Message: <blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 5426045" data-attributes="member: 22424">Be careful what you wish for...By the time 4e was announced, there were a lot of people who were ready for a new edition. I suspect in five or so years, a similar number of people will find they're likewise ready for 5e. This may well include a number of people who are complaining about the 5e threads right now! (Tastes change with time, and also talking about 5e in 2016 is a rather different matter from talking about it in 2011.)I suspect therefore that if WotC announced there would be no more editions, a fair number of people would be delighted... for a while.As for me: from a buying/DMing perspective, it would suit me quite well. I don't buy/run 4e, and that won't change, but I do keep one eye on what WotC are doing, with some consideration to how that might affect 5e. Obviously, if you remove 5e from the frame, I can basically ignore WotC going forward. (It would also encourage me to finally go ahead and put together my homebrew 'golden' edition, knowing I won't want to later abandon it in favour of 5e.)However, that would suit me rather less than had WotC stopped at 3.5e (my preferred edition), or if they went ahead with a 'good' 5e. (Where good is as defined by me at the time of release, of course! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> )It also wouldn't suit me all that well from a playing perspective. The other DM in one of my groups is something of a neo-phile (such that he has moved us on to the new Character Builder despite its flaws, and is planning to adopt the Fortune Cards). If and when 5e comes out, he'll no doubt switch over to that. However, if there is no 5e then we'd continue playing 4e... which, although a game I enjoy, is definitely not my preferred option.</blockquote>

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