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<blockquote data-quote="Mercurius" data-source="post: 5769398" data-attributes="member: 59082">Hold on a second there, Son of Meepo. I think what WotC realized they could do once DDI got rolling is make &quot;One Edition to End Them All&quot; because of the nature of digital technology--you can make micro-changes online, including errata and new rules, with new core books every few years to drive sales and collate all of the changes--but that everything could still be backwards compatible as an evolution of what came before. But I think they quickly realized (I'm totally guessing here) that 4E wouldn't work, it was too complex, too developed, and too tightly interconnected to provide the simple core for a modular game. To put it another way, &quot;5E&quot; could be the last &quot;new&quot; edition and the first of an ever-changing and evolving &quot;trans-edition&quot; game if the core is simple enough and robust enough to whether storms, add whatever is needed to it (in terms of modular options) and be capable of handling any variation of D&amp;D that we can dream up. At its heart, I wouldn't be surprised if 5E looked very similar to a stripped down d20/3.x D&amp;D upon which different groups can &quot;dress up&quot; in whatever way they want, even in different campaigns and perhaps even different characters.We could look at 4E D&amp;D as one way that the core d20 game was expanded upon. Now the trick for WotC with 5E will be if they can design in such a way that 5E could look and feel like Pathfinder or 4E or OD&amp;D or AD&amp;D or any number of other varieties.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mercurius, post: 5769398, member: 59082"] Hold on a second there, Son of Meepo. I think what WotC realized they could do once DDI got rolling is make "One Edition to End Them All" because of the nature of digital technology--you can make micro-changes online, including errata and new rules, with new core books every few years to drive sales and collate all of the changes--but that everything could still be backwards compatible as an evolution of what came before. But I think they quickly realized (I'm totally guessing here) that 4E wouldn't work, it was too complex, too developed, and too tightly interconnected to provide the simple core for a modular game. To put it another way, "5E" could be the last "new" edition and the first of an ever-changing and evolving "trans-edition" game [I]if [/I]the core is simple enough and robust enough to whether storms, add whatever is needed to it (in terms of modular options) and be capable of handling any variation of D&D that we can dream up. At its heart, I wouldn't be surprised if 5E looked very similar to a stripped down d20/3.x D&D upon which different groups can "dress up" in whatever way they want, even in different campaigns and perhaps even different characters. We could look at 4E D&D as one way that the core d20 game was expanded upon. Now the trick for WotC with 5E will be if they can design in such a way that 5E could look and feel like Pathfinder or 4E or OD&D or AD&D or any number of other varieties. [/QUOTE]

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