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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lonely Tylenol" data-source="post: 3704155" data-attributes="member: 18549">This sort of makes me wonder if the whole thing isn't going to collapse in on itself soon.  I get the feeling that at some point there will have been too many editions, and eventually a new edition won't kick-start things again.  Then, they'll be stuck trying to promote a new edition that nobody wants to buy while being more or less unable to support the older edition thanks to lack of profitability.  I can't say whether 4E is going to be the last one, but I do think that if 4E is significantly similar to 3E, it's a sign that we're reaching some kind of plateau of how far we can improve the general D&D system.  Eventually, there will be few improvements that can be made that are significant enough to justify an entire new edition.  3.0 to 3.5 was a pretty low-key set of changes, and I think that if we see too many more of those kinds of "buy all your books again" manoeuvres, there may be a general downturn in interest for the whole project.Not that I'm hoping that the hobby collapses under its own weight, but I wonder how long a hobby like this can last if the only thing keeping purchases up to a profitable level for the keystone company is the novelty of the products, and not their content.</blockquote>