Dungeons & Dragons…. Fifth?

So it was recently announced in a number of places that Wizards of the Coast will be working on a new edition of the Dungeons & Dragons game.

I don’t have a lot of investment in D&D at this point. I played it a lot when I was younger, and I had a long-running game during the Third Edition of the game. I bought the Fourth Edition core books and kind of read through parts of them. While it was an interesting approach in design, I never played that edition and so don’t really have an opinion of it (since it was out during my drought of tabletop gaming).

I am curious to see what is going to come out of the new edition and the crowdsourced playtesting and feedback that was mentioned in the press release. Will I pick up or play the new edition when it comes out? I don’t know… I’ll have to see what it looks like when it comes out.