Quote Originally Posted by Morty View Post
I feel like there's a lot of ground between "D&D stays exactly as it is" and "D&D becomes a GURPS clone". Whatever 'GURPS clone' is even supposed to mean; I get the impression GURPS is mostly thrown around as a generic bad thing, or at least one D&D shouldn't become. In practice, of course, D&D will stay exactly as it is even if there's a sixth edition in a few years' time. But there's nothing wrong with speculating about what could be.
There is a lot of ground, but
* changing to a skill/point-buy (rather than class/level) system
* removing the increasing HP
* changing away from a D20
(which were all proposed) isn't in that ground IMO.

There are changes you can make that are much less sweeping than those.