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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Reaper Steve" data-source="post: 3934303" data-attributes="member: 51528">I get the impression (or maybe it's just blind hope) that 4E is being built for the long haul. The modular nature of roles and power sources allows for planned growth. I also think 4E will see all of the classics updated and re-released to bring back the common experience.I also think a new edition every 5 years is reasonable, but 6-8 is probably optimum. Show me another RPG (worth playing) that's only on its 3rd revision in three decades. Games evolve, markets change. Of course, the difference is D&D gets more new books in a year than most other games get in a whole edition. Maybe books should come with an expiration date so you know when it's time to throw them out. I mean, sheesh, people drop $25 (assuming a date, here) to see a movie in a theater, and then another $20 to buy it on DVD to watch one more time. Then it collects dust until the end of time. $45 bucks for four hours of entertainment. But then a company makes a new edition of the game book you paid $25 for 10 years ago and have used for hundreds of hours? HERESY!The way I see it, each D&D book gives me many more hours of enjoyment than about any other leisure product or service for the same price. It's no big deal if I have to replace them twice a decade.</blockquote>