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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kabluey" data-source="post: 5971630" data-attributes="member: 6695703">I doubt you'll ever see this happen, no matter how many signatures you get.First, dropping 5E and supporting only the prior editions leaves out a potentially large group - or at least it seems like a large group to me, because it's the group that I'm a part of <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />.  That is, the group of players who have left D&D for other games.  I've DM'd every edition since 1st (never ran or played Basic D&D, though I read the rules and still own the old Rules Cyclopedia), and for the first 15-20 years of my gaming life ran D&D almost exclusively, from 1st up through 3rd Edition.  But 3E killed it for me.  It was too complex, too many of the products were crap, and I wanted to try different things.  I certainly look back on my 1st and 2nd games with fondness, but I don't want to play those games again.  They were great when I ran them, but the mechanics are dated now.  So if WoTC wants to draw back in the segment of the fan base that I represent, then a new edition is needed.  And though I didn't mention it, I did pick up 4E briefly with enthusiasm when it first came out - and hated it.Second, while nostalgic reprints are nice, I can't see WoTC having enough staff to support all these editions, especially older ones.Third, I'm not sure that they'd sell that many copies.  I still have my old 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Edition books; why do I have to buy them again?  Sure, they could sell modules, but it was always my understanding that modules aren't a big money-maker for companies.  For every book you sell, you at best sell only 1/5th the number of module copies, assuming every group buys your module.  Fourth, and finally, I just can't see WoTC doing this.  Sure, they don't mind selling some 1st and 3.5 books now, as well as obviously continuing to support 4E for a while longer, but when 5E comes out in a year or so, they're not going to want sales of prior editions to cannibalize 5E sales.  When they launch a new edition, they don't just drop support of the prior one because they're mean or don't care about that fan base, it's because it makes the most business sense.I'm sorry 5E isn't turning out the way you would have wanted (though there's still plenty of time for that to change, of course), but short of ponying up the cash to buy the IP or company, I don't think you're going to see this happen.</blockquote>

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