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<blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 7535955" data-attributes="member: 22424"><p>I think the OP might be right.</p><p></p><p>The thing is, any new edition inevitably splits the customer base, which means it doesn't make sense to do a small, incremental release - better to patch as much as you can with supplements and errata until you <em>really</em> can't live with the warts and then do a full revision of the whole thing.</p><p></p><p>But it only makes sense to do that full revision when sales drop dramatically, and if they drop dramatically from their current great height then there's a real chance that the Powers That Be will instead shelve it for a re-release in 20 years - probably with the same rules again.</p><p></p><p>5e is doing spectacularly well because it is just the right product at just the right time. It's really hard to envisage any 6e that could do as well - by the time it was released "just the right time" will have passed.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="delericho, post: 7535955, member: 22424"] I think the OP might be right. The thing is, any new edition inevitably splits the customer base, which means it doesn't make sense to do a small, incremental release - better to patch as much as you can with supplements and errata until you [i]really[/i] can't live with the warts and then do a full revision of the whole thing. But it only makes sense to do that full revision when sales drop dramatically, and if they drop dramatically from their current great height then there's a real chance that the Powers That Be will instead shelve it for a re-release in 20 years - probably with the same rules again. 5e is doing spectacularly well because it is just the right product at just the right time. It's really hard to envisage any 6e that could do as well - by the time it was released "just the right time" will have passed. [/QUOTE]
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