I'm really curious what 5e will be like.  With so much invested in the  infrastructure of the electronic stuff for 4e, I doubt they would scrap  it. Plus they went to a lot of trouble to change shit around enough or  the sole purpose of making it un-clone-able using the OGL. So, not able  to go backwards due to fear of people OGL'ing new products for it, and  not willing to scrap the electronic infrastructure, I am betting it will  expand upon 4e's base, and be more electronic.  I wouldn't be surprised  if they didn't even print books, just power cards.

Roast beef.

I have no idea what a WOTC 5e will look like, but given their trend of moving further away from what I enjoy in D&D with every new version, I sadly suspect it will be something I would not play at all.

It will be a highly simulationist point buy system.

They'll finally go classless, levelless and GMless, thus severing the last few connections to traditional D&D.

It'll be like 4E with improvements, just as 4e was 3.5 with improvements. These improvements will infuriate some, and delight others, and the game will only be picked up by people who actually play it.  

Such a mundane question, really.

Quote from: Warthur;374161They'll finally go classless, levelless and GMless, thus severing the last few connections to traditional D&D.

...and will use a Jenga tower for task resolution.

Jello.

It'll probably be 4ed with some minor changes and rebalancings just like what 3.5ed was for 3.0ed or 2ed was for 1ed. I don't think there'll be any big changes to the ruleset mostly a cleaning up of the math and general tweaking. Maybe one big change would be setting things up to make it so that you can't use your dailies unless some condition is satisfied so you get fights that go like:
A. PCs are outgunned and start getting beat up.
B. PCs turn the tables with a daily and win.

That'd give the playes a feeling that they won against the odds even though they didn't which is good for the old endorphins...

If they do decide to change things in anything more than a tweaking way it'd probably be a "go back to basics" move and be something like Castles and Crusades. I don't see much middle ground. There's no way that 5ed will try to do something new in a big way.

I'd go with the idea espoused in KM's dungeon thread on ENWorld.

Quote from: DeadUematsu;374171I'd go with the idea espoused in KM's dungeon thread on ENWorld.

link?

I'm guessing that mechanically it will be mainly a tweaked 4e but physically it will be a lot like WFRP 3 with a big expensive box and a lot of special components that make pirating impractical.

about $29.95 a month

iPad app.

Quote from: Phantom Black;374166...and will use a Jenga tower for task resolution.

They're going to blatantly rip off Dread? Not cool!

I'm going w/ the electronic route. Imagine if they took D&D and infused it with the addictive elements of games like, say, Farmville! Did I blow your mind? Huh? Huh?