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<blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 7872450" data-attributes="member: 996">One idea of the 5e approach to optional rules and lack of errata is that the game is a starting point, and they want to keep it safe &amp; practical for you to keep going off in whatever direction you chose once you left those starting blocks, that means not changing the core rules (the PH, less optional rules like Feats &amp; MCing, for instance) underneath you, and making new additions to the game optional, and resting only upon that core.Which may also protect the game from some of the deleterious effects of 'bloat' - that is, if it ever fills out, let alone gets bloated - at this rate, it'd take decades......which brings me to the other point:&nbsp; we may not see another edition for a very long time.&nbsp; Maybe another 10 years, maybe never.&nbsp; Or, when a new edition does show, it may be mainly cosmetic.&nbsp; Like a 50th anniversary edition filled with classic art and surviving-TSR-era-folks' commentaries and retrospectives in an appendix, but basically the exact same game content as 2014.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tony Vargas, post: 7872450, member: 996"] One idea of the 5e approach to optional rules and lack of errata is that the game is a starting point, and they want to keep it safe & practical for you to keep going off in whatever direction you chose once you left those starting blocks, that means not changing the core rules (the PH, less optional rules like Feats & MCing, for instance) underneath you, and making new additions to the game optional, and resting only upon that core. Which may also protect the game from some of the deleterious effects of 'bloat' - that is, if it ever fills out, let alone gets bloated - at this rate, it'd take decades... ...which brings me to the other point: we may not see another edition for a very long time. Maybe another 10 years, maybe never. Or, when a new edition does show, it may be mainly cosmetic. Like a 50th anniversary edition filled with classic art and surviving-TSR-era-folks' commentaries and retrospectives in an appendix, but basically the exact same game content as 2014. [/QUOTE]

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