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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Darrin Drader" data-source="post: 3932157" data-attributes="member: 7394">If a lot of people actually follow D&D to 4E, then it will be a short lived edition because the businessfolk will have learned that they can get away with hitting the reset button more often to "reinvigorate the brand" (on that note, I hate how corporatespeak sidesteps the fact that they're really just sticking it to the consumer). If 4E is a success, then 5E will be a success five years later, and 6E will be a success four years after that.If 4E is not a huge success then it will probably be very long-lived. Support will dwindle and possibly vanish, as we've seen happen to numerous WotC brands in the past. Support products might get farmed out to third party companies operating under a license granting them the use of the logo. Eventually there will be the "Return of D&D" with edition 5, which will most likely be produced by whatever company with then owns it - or at least own the rights to publish it.Anyone who doubts that the new edition is anything other than a grab for cash needs to think again. While 3.5 took an already good game and improved upon it by making a lot of excellent options part of the core game, I have no such hopes for 4E. So far it looks like a lot of change for change's sake while including fewer rules in the core products instead of more.</blockquote>