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<blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 8255104" data-attributes="member: 6704184"><p>I will gladly make a bet right now for $5 USD that what I describe below will be as close to a new edition that we will see in 2024. We may well see something more tame, instead.</p><p></p><p>Basically, revised core books. That's it, in short. To get into detail on what I think will be in them, they will not have an edition number on them, and anywhere in official material or press going forward new stuff will still be spoken of as part of 5e, without any qualifiers or addendums. Not 5e Revised, not 5.5e, just 5e. </p><p></p><p>Further, the new core books will actually be just revisions. The PHB ranger will be compatible with new PHB ranger archetypes, and vise versa. Same for every class. Variant versions of lineages will be presented <em>as optional variants</em>, and will be wholly compatible with things like race feats from before the revised core books. </p><p></p><p>It will be a special edition core book set that takes advantage of the opportunity to make more deep errata than they're comfortable with now. Not "basically backward compatible", but genuinely the same game, with a suite of patch fixes. </p><p></p><p>The most daring thing I can see them doing to the game would be to revise the two weapon fighting rules, TWF fighting style, and the Dual Wielder feat, to make dual wielding not use your bonus action, and they might do something stupid like rewriting the ranger's abilities without keeping Natural Explorer and Favored Enemy intact, instead of rewriting those abilities to be more broadly useful while not representing an I win button when traveling. But even then, you'll still be able to play a Horizon Walker Ranger from Xanathar's using the Revised Core Ranger.</p><p></p><p>My only caveat is, if they start publishing multiple big books of player options a year, getting weirder and wierder rather than revisiting things people aren't satisfied with or feel is missing, and just generally flood the market with books, yeah, we might see an announcement for a new edition by then, but even then there just isn't enough time. </p><p></p><p></p><p>So, I will secondarily bet $20 dollors that if we haven't had an announcement of playtesting for a new edition by 2022, we will not see one in 2024, even if the game is tanking by then.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="doctorbadwolf, post: 8255104, member: 6704184"] I will gladly make a bet right now for $5 USD that what I describe below will be as close to a new edition that we will see in 2024. We may well see something more tame, instead. Basically, revised core books. That's it, in short. To get into detail on what I think will be in them, they will not have an edition number on them, and anywhere in official material or press going forward new stuff will still be spoken of as part of 5e, without any qualifiers or addendums. Not 5e Revised, not 5.5e, just 5e. Further, the new core books will actually be just revisions. The PHB ranger will be compatible with new PHB ranger archetypes, and vise versa. Same for every class. Variant versions of lineages will be presented [I]as optional variants[/I], and will be wholly compatible with things like race feats from before the revised core books. It will be a special edition core book set that takes advantage of the opportunity to make more deep errata than they're comfortable with now. Not "basically backward compatible", but genuinely the same game, with a suite of patch fixes. The most daring thing I can see them doing to the game would be to revise the two weapon fighting rules, TWF fighting style, and the Dual Wielder feat, to make dual wielding not use your bonus action, and they might do something stupid like rewriting the ranger's abilities without keeping Natural Explorer and Favored Enemy intact, instead of rewriting those abilities to be more broadly useful while not representing an I win button when traveling. But even then, you'll still be able to play a Horizon Walker Ranger from Xanathar's using the Revised Core Ranger. My only caveat is, if they start publishing multiple big books of player options a year, getting weirder and wierder rather than revisiting things people aren't satisfied with or feel is missing, and just generally flood the market with books, yeah, we might see an announcement for a new edition by then, but even then there just isn't enough time. So, I will secondarily bet $20 dollors that if we haven't had an announcement of playtesting for a new edition by 2022, we will not see one in 2024, even if the game is tanking by then. [/QUOTE]
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