D&D 5E (2024) What will D&D 6th edition be like?

[Minigiant]

Like 5e but with more alternate class features at the start. The PHB will have a streamlinedpist of spells and a 4th and 5th core book with contain most of the magic.

1. Player's Handbook - PC info and core iconic spells
2. Dungeon Master's Guide- DM and core iconic magic items and traps
3. Monster Manual- Monsters
4. Spellcaster Tome- All the other spells. Categorized by genre and class.
5. Ledger of Loot- All the other magic items. Finally magical polearms.

 

[Panda-s1]

6th edition will probably be designed to address whatever issues that made 5th edition stop selling. Since 5e sales show no sign of slowing down, it's hard to imagine what problem 6e will be intended to solve, and thus we can't predict what it will look like.

iirc this didn't stop them from making 3.5 so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

[jgsugden]

iirc this didn't stop them from making 3.5 so ¯\(ツ)/¯

3E came out in 2000. 3.5 was 2003, 3 years later. Between that time they released a lot of books including an Epic Level Handbook, a Psionics book, and a plethora of class books.

5E came out in 2014. 6 years later and no revision to the edition has been announced. We have had psionics teased, but not released. There has been very little discussion of epic level (above 20) play. The number of boks released in 6 years is a fraction of what we saw between the release of 3E and the release of 3.5.

So.... what exactly makes you think 3E to 3.5 is the template they're following?

 

[Don Durito]

iirc this didn't stop them from making 3.5 so ¯\(ツ)/¯

3.5 created an awful lot of bad will and while the edition would go on for a long time from then on, it definitely felt like there were serious repercussions - the D20 bubble burst, a lot 3rd party publishers moved out of support for the system, opinions became more divisive about the game online etc.

Not a good move to do again, at least not until there's a serious and clear desire among fans for a revision (which will happen eventually).

 

[Panda-s1]

3E came out in 2000. 3.5 was 2003, 3 years later. Between that time they released a lot of books including an Epic Level Handbook, a Psionics book, and a plethora of class books.

5E came out in 2014. 6 years later and no revision to the edition has been announced. We have had psionics teased, but not released. There has been very little discussion of epic level (above 20) play. The number of boks released in 6 years is a fraction of what we saw between the release of 3E and the release of 3.5.

So.... what exactly makes you think 3E to 3.5 is the template they're following?

I don't, I'm just saying slowdown wasn't a precipitory event for 3.5, there is precedent against this line of thought.

3.5 created an awful lot of bad will and while the edition would go on for a long time from then on, it definitely felt like there were serious repercussions - the D20 bubble burst, a lot 3rd party publishers moved out of support for the system, opinions became more divisive about the game online etc.

Not a good move to do again, at least not until there's a serious and clear desire among fans for a revision (which will happen eventually).

oh I know, I wasn't there for it, but I also understand 3.0 had a lot of broken ideas that needed to be fixed. I was there when they sort of did it with Essentials, which I personally felt was 2 years too late :/

 

[Prakriti]

I still want to know what 3rd Edition will look like.

It's lonely here in 1996.

 

[Mistwell]

Look, a 6th edition of D&D is inevitable

Or it's not and 5e will be evergreen and change over time as 5e rather than as a new edition.

 

[Zardnaar]

Or it's not and 5e will be evergreen and change over time as 5e rather than as a new edition.

Wanna buy a bridge in Brooklyn?

 

[Mistwell]

Wanna buy a bridge in Brooklyn?

Wanna not be a dick?

 

[Minigiant]

Or it's not and 5e will be evergreen and change over time as 5e rather than as a new edition.

I doubt that
5e is good but it isn't neither close enough to perfect nor modular enough to go on forever.
It's almost 5 years and it's not at the state it would need to be to stay evergreen.