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<blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 5664190" data-attributes="member: 22424">You say that as if it's a trivial thing. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />When it comes to adding the old books (presumably as PDFs), this would indeed be fairly simple. And adding 3e support to eDragon is likewise easy - just solicit submissions for the edition.However, the major selling point of DDI is the tools, especially the Character Builder. And those are tied very closely to 4e. You can't simply add 3e support to those tools; the software simply won't allow it. And stretching the existing tools to do this would actually be more work than simply starting over and developing an entirely new 3e Character Builder (and Monster Builder, Compendium, and anything else they have in the pipeline that is tied to 4e).Now, it might be worth doing this, if the number of 3e players (or, rather, likely customers) is still sufficiently high, or if WotC believe that doing this would kill Pathfinder. But I wouldn't bet on either; I certainly wouldn't bet the entire future of D&amp;D on it - and that's the sort of investment we'd be talking about.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="delericho, post: 5664190, member: 22424"] You say that as if it's a trivial thing. :) When it comes to adding the old books (presumably as PDFs), this would indeed be fairly simple. And adding 3e support to eDragon is likewise easy - just solicit submissions for the edition. However, the major selling point of DDI is the tools, especially the Character Builder. And those are tied very closely to 4e. You can't simply add 3e support to those tools; the software simply won't allow it. And stretching the existing tools to do this would actually be more work than simply starting over and developing an entirely new 3e Character Builder (and Monster Builder, Compendium, and anything else they have in the pipeline that is tied to 4e). Now, it [i]might[/i] be worth doing this, if the number of 3e players (or, rather, likely customers) is still sufficiently high, or if WotC believe that doing this would kill Pathfinder. But I wouldn't bet on either; I certainly wouldn't bet the entire future of D&D on it - and that's the sort of investment we'd be talking about. [/QUOTE]

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