9th
D&D 5th Edition is on the way
Ethan Gilsdorf:
On Monday, Wizards of the Coast, the Hasbro subsidiary that owns the game, announced that a new edition is under development, the first overhaul of the rules since the contentious fourth edition was released in 2008. And Dungeons & Dragons’ designers are also planning to undertake an exceedingly rare effort for the gaming industry over the next few months: asking hundreds of thousands of fans to tell them how exactly they should reboot the franchise.
It’s not surprising. I’ve always believed that their DDI implementation was a huge missed opportunity as Web-based product, and 4th edition hasn’t aged gracefully.
Also, from the buried lede department is the last line of the article:
Even if players increasingly bring their iPads, loaded with Dungeons & Dragons rulebooks, to the gaming table.
Those rulebooks are pirated copies of PDFs on a computer platform unsupported by any of Wizards’ current products.
