What will the annoucement of 5e look like?

[NewJeffCT]

It will look like this:




The Auld Grump

If I could XP a post twice, I'd do it for that post.

It will be something very much like that.

 

[kmdietri]

I just hope it's soon. I hate the speculation phase, but I really enjoy the 'this edition sucks' phase.

But deep down I hope it doesn't suck.

 

[Stormonu]

Monte: "D&D 5E?"

Mearls: "It'll be ready when it's ready."

 

[Wiseblood]

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Perhaps?

 

[Samurai]

It'll be a guy with a terrible accent saying "All ze versions uv D&D before now vere horribly flawed, but finally, 5e iz here! And it iz ze same game, but better!"

 

[El Mahdi]

Weeping and Gnashing of Teeth!

 

[Derren]

Niemand hat die Absicht eine neue Edition herauszubringen!

Lets see how many people know where this comes from...

In english (highlight)
Nobody has the intention of releasing a new version!

 

[Mark CMG]

What will the annoucement of 5e look like?

No one will know as they will all have gouged their own eyes from the sockets in their burning skulls . . .

D&D XP 2012 with a June 2013 release date target, IMO, but that's been my suspicion for some time. Edition cycles are shrinking. I'm surprised it has taken this long considering the amount of controversy over it, the rise of Paizo, the marketing fumbles (including gnome-alienation, "The Game will remain ZEE same!", the OGL/GSL debacle), etc. The game takes up such a small portion of FLGS space and all roads lead to DDI, so I'm not sure why they bother waiting between system overhauls. It's amazing, too, how they can manage to keep any retailers on board since Amazon canabalizes so many core and supplement book sales and the DDI subscription base generally eats into 4E players' discretionary spending funds. Yet retailers remain convinced that they should still fight for some table scraps by running what are essentially demos for players who stop in, play, then go home and jump online to make their purchases. I wonder what place retailers will hold when eBooks become the norm, virtual tabletops replace buying maps or minis, and the only way to get a hardbound copy of the rules will be through print-on-demand shops.

 

[Dice4Hire]

I wonder what place retailers will hold when eBooks become the norm, virtual tabletops replace buying maps or minis, and the only way to get a hardbound copy of the rules will be through print-on-demand shops.

The human race will most likely have colonized multiple planets by then, so some will be more primitive than others.

 

[Derren]

The human race will most likely have colonized multiple planets by then, so some will be more primitive than others.

With the advent of tablets I don't think that it will take quite that long.