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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 3927126" data-attributes="member: 158">I also base it on the knowledge from former TSR employees that D&D would probably be in its 6th or 7th edition now if it weren't for so many corporate shakeups between the 1980's and now.Unearthed Arcana appeared in 1985, and its status as a supplement instead of a full new edition I think was affected by Gary's struggles for control.TSR staffers were kicking around ideas for 3rd edition as early as the early 1990's before bankruptcy reared its head in 1996.Heck, it seems that most of the execs that ran the ship in 1999 were gone by five years later! It's not like the owners of D&D have ever had a smooth, contiguous history of a decade or more.5E will probably be a reality by 2015 or so, I'm estimating. And that's cool with me. I don't have a huge desire to see D&D remain iron-clad for decades on end -- it's just not the norm for the rest of the RPG industry.</blockquote>