I'd personally like to see someone who has a lot of previous experience working with the game like Paizo get a hold of it, but I don't know if they're that big of a company to support it.
The Pathfinder RPG version of the d20 system so far as we've been playing it for months now has been very solid and that's only the beta edition.
If a 5th edition does come out I'd like to see it definitely return to it's roots a lot better aiming more towards Advanced Dungeons and Dragons First or Second edition.
Valve will insidiously redistribute 5th ed as a tabletop version of Team Fortress 2 but with a fantasy twist
Heavy = Barbarian
Scout = Rogue
Sniper = ranger
Medic = Cleric
Demoman = Wizard
Spy = Bard
Pyro = Warlock
Soldier = Fighter
Engineer = Artificier
the game will come pre-packed with several battlemats and premade scenarios you can play in.
additional scenarios can be downloaded via your Steam account
...
in a more serious tone, i'm guessing 5th ed will come out in '16-'18 and will more then likely be different from the editions before it.
i seriously doubt you'll see a renaissance of 1st or 2nd ed mechanics in a "modern" D&D unless a VERY large portion of the fanbase begins clamoring for it.
Either way, it will come when it will come. Some will like it, some won't. And then a meteor will fall out of the sky and kill us all. Yay!
In Spaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaace!
In 5th Edition, no one will be able to hear you scream.
:heehee
Wait, how are we counting? I mean, there were several 'editions' of Basic D&D while the AD&D line kept going, and if you count 'revised' rules then really, we're closer to already being on D&D8 or 9 or something.
D&D uses the Resident Evil method of naming editions. ;)
First they will do away with "Levels" as this is far too MMO-like.
Then they will remove "Classes", as these restrict your power options, and are ALSO MMO-like.
Thirdly they will replace HP pools, which are MMO-like, with a system for marking wounds to specific parts of the body and applying penalties based off them.
Also, due to backlash from the 'mini-centric boardgame feel' of 4th ed, 5th edition will be Mandatory LARP. The PHB will come packaged with sowing patterns for robes, and one quarter of the book will be dedicated to schematics for building weapons and armor out of insulation foam, PVC Pipe, and Duct Tape.
And the sun will shine black in the pale green sky as the blue-purple grass grows ever taller, in the crazy fantasy land where any of this is possible.
5th edition will allow for BS, and cover it in the Game Master's Guide.
Well I guess I could see 5th edition drinking a gallon of milk in less than 3 minutes if the GMG says so, though it still seems a bit far fetched.
In 5th Edition, no one will be able to hear you scream.
Because there won't be any rules for it.
Lacking a detailed chart of the range at which every possible sound can be heard under every possible condition, players will simply assume that hearing things just can't be done within the 5th Edition rules system.
The language now known as Common will be reflavored as Charades, and the Bard class will be replaced with the Mime.
The 5th Edition PHB will be beamed directly into your brain, for instant rules mastery of every player. This will make getting that $20 bill a little difficult.
You will be able to call CS and they will send you a new $20 bill, along with reliable errata.
It will look something like this:
Races of 5th edition revealed!
The marvelous beholderborn (deep, undead tyrant, mother and spectator)
The valiant aasimar! (blessed/cursed aasimar, jovial aasimar and just aasimar)
The mysterious elf! (high elf, low elf, dark elf, bright elf, pseudo-elf, half-elf and elven bloodline powers to apply to any other race)
The stout dwarf! (dwarf)
The crazed goblins! (redcap, pucka, hobs, rat-folk, tengu and troll)
The collosal Super Robos! (Ganmen and free-thinking mechas)
The standard human! (savage and civilised {personal opinion required})
The feral person-animals (canine, feline, bovine, ursine, simian and rules for making any kind of person-animals)
The over-powered munchkin! (mighty munchkin, arcane munchkin and mighty arcane munchkin)
and last but not least,
The Gelatinous Cube!
started with 2nd edition, tried 3rd when it came out but didnt like it(kept playing 2nd) so many things wrong about 4th edition that its just seems like they are trying to be an MMORPG. just wondering when everyone thinks 5th edition will come out, definately need to figure in how much time WotC needs for everyone to buy their 4th edition stuff.
5th Edition = Dungeons and Dragons: World of Dragons (or something to that effect)
Rated T
PC
Comes out December 2011
Thinking 5th Edition will be the first version to go right to computer. Seeing that people love when they dramatically change things they will also change the name to WoD, World of Dragons.
Dude I did not see this, you took the idea right out of mine head
Dude I did not see this, you took the idea right out of mine head
You know, when I first saw the "World of Dragons" comment, I though someone was being remarkably witty and comparing whining anti-4th people to the whiny elitists who play White Wolf.
I then remembered where I was.
(This was not an attack against anyone here who plays White Wolf. Lets just say I've had a lot of trouble with WW and their hardcore fanbase.)
Either way, it will come when it will come. Some will like it, some won't. And then a meteor will fall out of the sky and kill us all. Yay!
It's that last part I'm really excited about.
You will be able to call CS and they will send you a new $20 bill, along with reliable errata.
Also beamed directly into the head. This will eventually lead to a craze in which head hunters go after D&D players for all the $20 bills in their heads. D&D players will become an endangered species, and eventually become a protected class of creature.
Also beamed directly into the head. This will eventually lead to a craze in which head hunters go after D&D players for all the $20 bills in their heads. D&D players will become an endangered species, and eventually become a protected class of creature.
Well if D&D players have all the lewtz for adventurers then it means that D&D players will become monsters which have their own lairs.
Well if D&D players have all the lewtz for adventurers then it means that D&D players will become monsters which have their own lairs.
Which will become protected habitats. Woot! That means no rent!
5th Edition will comeout in about ten years. Not before eight years in people start whining on these very forums about it coming out, and how wotc is greedy and corrupt, and there's a whole lot of butthurt. And rather then just stick to their lie about there "being no 5th edition", they start banning people all scared they're going to leak some vital information like this is missles or something.
Then after a bunchof drama and perma-bans. Fifth edition is released. People are so excited and anxious to see the changes they forget all about how wotc lied right to their face about there being no 5th edition and banned their friends. Then when the newness of it all settles down. People go back to complaining about game balance, alignment threads, no women gamers, and the once per day accusation of being a troll. Untill the next eight years when sixth edition comes out.
I sometimes wonder what it was like before the internet. When TSR should've been called TL;DR because the AD&D manuals made no ****ing sense at all... And everybody thought you were a Collumbine shooter or Satan worshipper instead of just a fat, hairy, virgin...
just wondering when everyone thinks 5th edition will come out,
5e? Around 2015.
Give or take a year, and assuming there's no truth to the Myan/Aztec calander End-of-World-as-we-know-it myth.
4.5 (or whatever they effectively call it)? 2011/2012. Again, assuming no Myan iterference....
the terrible thing about tribbles
'zat tribbles are terrible things
they eat and eat and eat and eat
they don't do much anything
their maintenance is quite easy
but it ain't fun fun fun fun fun
the most terrible thing about tribbles iiiiiissssss...
there's rarely only one, ohhhh...
there's rarely only one!
what?
The Gelatinous Cube!
SOLD! I'm so looking forward to 5th Ed, hopefully tthey will include a playable flumph as well!