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Author Topic: It seems like we're really getting 5.5e in 2024  (Read 20874 times)

RagnarB

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Re: It seems like we're really getting 5.5e in 2024
« Reply #165 on: October 07, 2021, 01:03:45 AM »
Very different. We were promised a modular game. That was kicked to the curb immediately. Too much design work. When I saw that wasn't happening I stopped paying attention.

Thank you for this, I thought I hallucinated that. I clearly remember having that impression back when 5e first came out but I don't remember what I heard or read that gave me that impression, and it's not something I see people talk about.

Prairie Dragon

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Re: It seems like we're really getting 5.5e in 2024
« Reply #166 on: October 07, 2021, 01:11:07 AM »
Regarding the actual topic...

I don't know why, but I have a feeling that D&D (gaming) books already had their best moment. I expect new books to be successful - maybe even more so than old ones - but there will not be much more growth. Instead, they'll sell a lot more toys, movies, books, etc.

I cannot articulate why, but I'm feeling this for a while. 5e is past its prime and I don't think 5.5e will fix that.

I do not think, however, that a new competitor will emerge. Non-D&D RPGs will remain a niche and that's okay, I guess.

Just a hunch at this point. Might be completely wrong.

I won't begin to work again until it has a awesome, new setting to go along with it.  Don't see that happening.  Reviving an old setting might interest some fans, but not like a new setting would.