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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zardnaar" data-source="post: 6228871" data-attributes="member: 6716779">A popular D&D edition makes it easy to find players that is why. 10 years ago I had a waiting list of players to pick from for 3.5, now it is hard to find a single player willing to play anything D&D related as 4E tanked hard and the last D&Ders are playing Pathfinder locally except for myself running OSR games.  Also large print cycles= cheap books. 3.0 for example was only $20 for each core book and 3rd ed was very popular and still is. Those $20 books in 2000 were the same price as the PHB in 1989 for 2nd ed. Probably resulted in a huge amount of people getting 3rd ed because it was cheap. More people playing= easier to find players. I spent $20 for example on ACKs, and last night I spent $32 on the 3 core books for Castles and Crusades. WoTC wants $17 for a PDF of Assault on Dragonspear Castle.  If I buy a retroclone and hat it I am $10 out of pocket or so maybe $20. I bought the 4E books here for $40 each roughly (NZ is expensive for RPGs) so I am $120 out of pocket and selling them second hand is not a great plan.</blockquote>