Llaurenela
First Post
I have omitted the smilies from the following, so insert the ones that you think it needs as you read it. Please note that if any of this offends you, then in all likelihood you have completely missed the point that I am trying to make. If any thing does offend,you then I apologize ahead of time that you read something into this that I did not intend.
4e, 5e, 6e, and 7e etc will come and go, or not. WOTC/Hasbro made a decision a long time ago to write off a lot of RPG players. WOTC came from the Magic The Gathering background which is antithetical to the roots of D&D and AD&D. Therefore, from the gitgo it was obvious that whatever they did with the game it would not be pleasing to those who really loved D&D or AD&D. And that is the way it worked out, you have today OD&D players, Clessic D&D players, 1st & 2nd Ed AD&D players (although these categories are simplified) and you have 3e players and 3.5e players. Each group pretty much does its own thing and their are not many who play any form of D&D outside their area of preference. However, people in all of these groups for the most part, play other games that offer some of the same things that they like about "their version" of D&D. Some of them actually like the other games better. But for the most part, people play what they like and don't play what they don't like.
Hasbro on the other hand who bought WOTC out, comes from the background of an extremely large faceless coporate entity that is good at making money from games and toys. They really could care less about what the customer wants, and have no concern whatsoever about the quality of whatever they make. It is completely about making money and there are no other concerns that mean anything to the corporate suits. In other words, just a typical corporation, soulless,faceless and historyless. They are not moral or immoral, they are simply unmoral or amoral, i.e. without any moral orientation whatsoever, neutral if you will.
Now I started play rpgs and 1st Ed AD&D about 16 years ago (approx 1990) and I was not tempted with 2e, 3e or 3.5e. A little over a year ago, I discovered OD&D (the 3 books originally published in 1974) and have been hooked on it since. I really could care less about 4e, 5e, 6e, and 7e etc since I will never buy any of it for the same reason that I have never bought any of the 3e or 3.5e stuff and none of the d20 stuff except C&C. That reason is that it doesn't offer me personally anything of interest. (Get a grip, I am not putting down 3e or 3.5e, it is just not to my taste)
Along with discovering OD&D, I also discovered Mythus (Dangerous Journeys) and Arduin and Lejendary Adventures. I also got access to First Fantasy Campaign (the early one) and Adventures in Fantasy. Between these and the internet, I have enough material that is easily ported to OD&D and 1e, to keep me busy playing and having fun for the rest of my life. There are literally hundreds of free modules along with the OOP stuff, that anything my own creative juices run low, I will never run out of things to use.
So WOTC/Hasbro lost all possible business from me when they chose to walk away from what I want to buy. How many people like me are there, who knows and most likely who cares. If whoever owns D&D ever decides to publish the type of stuff that I am interested in I would buy it. If they reprinted the old OOP stuff again, I would buy some of it too. For instance if the original 3 books of D&D where reprinted in the same format and in the same type of box as they were at the beginning, clearly marked "REPRINT 200X" then I would buy several, one for myself about 10 for gifts. And so on for many other OOP products.
Of course that will never happen.
4e, 5e, 6e, and 7e etc will come and go, or not. WOTC/Hasbro made a decision a long time ago to write off a lot of RPG players. WOTC came from the Magic The Gathering background which is antithetical to the roots of D&D and AD&D. Therefore, from the gitgo it was obvious that whatever they did with the game it would not be pleasing to those who really loved D&D or AD&D. And that is the way it worked out, you have today OD&D players, Clessic D&D players, 1st & 2nd Ed AD&D players (although these categories are simplified) and you have 3e players and 3.5e players. Each group pretty much does its own thing and their are not many who play any form of D&D outside their area of preference. However, people in all of these groups for the most part, play other games that offer some of the same things that they like about "their version" of D&D. Some of them actually like the other games better. But for the most part, people play what they like and don't play what they don't like.
Hasbro on the other hand who bought WOTC out, comes from the background of an extremely large faceless coporate entity that is good at making money from games and toys. They really could care less about what the customer wants, and have no concern whatsoever about the quality of whatever they make. It is completely about making money and there are no other concerns that mean anything to the corporate suits. In other words, just a typical corporation, soulless,faceless and historyless. They are not moral or immoral, they are simply unmoral or amoral, i.e. without any moral orientation whatsoever, neutral if you will.
Now I started play rpgs and 1st Ed AD&D about 16 years ago (approx 1990) and I was not tempted with 2e, 3e or 3.5e. A little over a year ago, I discovered OD&D (the 3 books originally published in 1974) and have been hooked on it since. I really could care less about 4e, 5e, 6e, and 7e etc since I will never buy any of it for the same reason that I have never bought any of the 3e or 3.5e stuff and none of the d20 stuff except C&C. That reason is that it doesn't offer me personally anything of interest. (Get a grip, I am not putting down 3e or 3.5e, it is just not to my taste)
Along with discovering OD&D, I also discovered Mythus (Dangerous Journeys) and Arduin and Lejendary Adventures. I also got access to First Fantasy Campaign (the early one) and Adventures in Fantasy. Between these and the internet, I have enough material that is easily ported to OD&D and 1e, to keep me busy playing and having fun for the rest of my life. There are literally hundreds of free modules along with the OOP stuff, that anything my own creative juices run low, I will never run out of things to use.
So WOTC/Hasbro lost all possible business from me when they chose to walk away from what I want to buy. How many people like me are there, who knows and most likely who cares. If whoever owns D&D ever decides to publish the type of stuff that I am interested in I would buy it. If they reprinted the old OOP stuff again, I would buy some of it too. For instance if the original 3 books of D&D where reprinted in the same format and in the same type of box as they were at the beginning, clearly marked "REPRINT 200X" then I would buy several, one for myself about 10 for gifts. And so on for many other OOP products.
Of course that will never happen.
