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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 5402983" data-attributes="member: 2067">Their use of the internet went from prescient, ahead-of-its-time, and bold in 2000 (SRD! OGL!) to cutting their nose to spite their face in 2010 (CB, DDI, PDF's). At this rate, they will be back to 1980 by 2020, so 6e is clearly going to be a MUD. Hyperbolic doomsdaying aside (ha!), I really think WotC will be cool with D&D for quite a while. If Essentials serves a similar business function as 3.5 ("sales are lagging, we need to boost them, lets re-write the rules!"), though, I wouldn't be surprised to see a 5e sooner than later, though I'd imagine it would be very close in design to 4e the sooner it is. And it might not even be called "5e." And it might just be a board game. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> At any rate, there will be something with the D&D name that involves killing things and taking their stuff and leveling up. That's a really broad requirement, though, and whatever it might be might not be something that's lots of fun for me. But heck, I'm a spoiled American consumer. I've got millions of people begging me to give them my chump change. If D&D ain't gonna do it anymore, I'll play Pathfinder or fire up some Diablo.If D&D wants to keep doing it, one of the things I might consider is giving a pink slip to whatever suit has been running the electronic side of things into the muck over some bogeyman fear of piracy and hiring someone who groks the idea that your weak-sauce IP is worthless if no one wants to play your game of make-believe.Anyway, I'm pretty confident in the immediate future of 4e. 2011, they'll be fine. 2012, 2013...well, we'll see what they look like on the other side of this econopocalypse. 5 years might not be too short for an edition's lifetime.</blockquote>

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