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<blockquote data-quote="ggroy" data-source="post: 5385627" data-attributes="member: 83805">Technically they don't have to market a new &quot;iteration&quot; of D&amp;D as 5E.A new iteration of D&amp;D (whether it will be called 5E or not) may very well be inevitable, assuming D&amp;D is not taken off the market.&nbsp; The decision to pump out a new iteration of D&amp;D, will most likely be driven by the accounting/finance people and upper management at WotC.Going back in history, according to the &quot;[ame=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/Wizards-Presents-Classes-Dungeons-Dragons/dp/0786948019&quot;]Wizards Presents:&nbsp; Races and Classes[/ame]&quot; book on page 8, they mentioned that work on 4E D&amp;D started in mid-2005.&nbsp; So from start to the release date of 4E PHB1, it took around three years.For 4E Essentials they had a one year &quot;rushed&quot; turnaround, where they started working on it back in September 2009.&nbsp; This is according to the <a href="http://www.wizards.com/dnd/Article.aspx?x=dnd/4pod/20100721" target="_blank">July 2010 WotC D&amp;D podcast</a>, mentioned at around 00:00:55 in the podcast.If the next iteration of D&amp;D is just a clean up and/or refinement of 4E D&amp;D, most likely it won't take as long as three years, but will most likely still take at least a year (by past precedents).If they started working on a new iteration of D&amp;D today, most likely&nbsp; it will take them two or three years from start to release date (ie.&nbsp; 2012 or 2013 respectively), depending on whether it is respectively just a &quot;cleanup + refinement&quot; or a completely new design.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ggroy, post: 5385627, member: 83805"] Technically they don't have to market a new "iteration" of D&D as 5E. A new iteration of D&D (whether it will be called 5E or not) may very well be inevitable, assuming D&D is not taken off the market. The decision to pump out a new iteration of D&D, will most likely be driven by the accounting/finance people and upper management at WotC. Going back in history, according to the "[ame="http://www.amazon.com/Wizards-Presents-Classes-Dungeons-Dragons/dp/0786948019"]Wizards Presents: Races and Classes[/ame]" book on page 8, they mentioned that work on 4E D&D started in mid-2005. So from start to the release date of 4E PHB1, it took around three years. For 4E Essentials they had a one year "rushed" turnaround, where they started working on it back in September 2009. This is according to the [URL="http://www.wizards.com/dnd/Article.aspx?x=dnd/4pod/20100721"]July 2010 WotC D&D podcast[/URL], mentioned at around 00:00:55 in the podcast. If the next iteration of D&D is just a clean up and/or refinement of 4E D&D, most likely it won't take as long as three years, but will most likely still take at least a year (by past precedents). If they started working on a new iteration of D&D today, most likely it will take them two or three years from start to release date (ie. 2012 or 2013 respectively), depending on whether it is respectively just a "cleanup + refinement" or a completely new design. [/QUOTE]

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