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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9677026" data-attributes="member: 18">Oh to be clear I agree completely here. I don't see 2024 getting unceremoniously dumped like the 3D VTT/Sigil was. That would be a break of trust with people who did buy it and not great reputationally, and more importantly to WotC, it also would make less money!My expectation is:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">2024 continues for 3-4 years as "main D&D"</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">A new edition being planned is announced at some point in year 3 or later</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Open playtest in year 4 or 5</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">WotC attempts to keep transition smooth, probably rewards 2024 owners on Beyond somehow</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">6E is far less backwards-compatible than 2024 but not backwards-hostile like 4E effectively was, lots of free conversion materials from WotC</li> </ul>Of course there might also be:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Insane WotC execs cannot resist stepping on rakes so instead of doing a CC-BY/SRD 5.2 deal as with 5E 2024, we get OGL 2.0/GSL-style licencing.</li> </ul>Just can never underestimate the desire of the WotC exec to just leap towards the nearest rake!Also bear in mind I have wildly overestimated how long it has taken WotC to move on stuff - like, I expected Perkins to go a while back, but thought it'd take a year or two, and it was like two months after that, and when he went I expected Crawford to follow, but again, I thought it'd be a year or two, and it was months. So if the timescale is much compressed, don't blame me! But I don't think it'll be longer than 5 years before 6E is here or nearly here.I think they look at 2024's soft sales and go "Ok, it's temporary pain, but we can deal with it when we get big sales next year with the new edition!". I think a lot of the insistence that it wasn't a new edition stuff was coming from a fear of killing the golden goose, but it turns out the "updated but not entirely new" goose is laying less eggs anyway, so maybe they can just get an entirely new goose to really slam them eggs out?Also I suspect that the leadership now is not the same internally as it was when 2024 was developed. But without paying incredible attention to WotC's LinkedIn, which I am frankly unwilling to do (and which "gardening leave" stuff makes much harder), I couldn't say for sure.</blockquote>

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