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Can WotC Cater to Past Editions Without Compromising 4e Design?
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<blockquote data-quote="Dark Mistress" data-source="post: 5665562" data-attributes="member: 11816"><p>There seems to be several intertwined conversations going on at once in this thread.</p><p></p><p>1) Do I think a new version of DnD could appeal to older editions and to current? I think it is possible, but highly unlikely. It would be a high risk vs high reward, with a screw up likely being the death of DnD if it fell in between and they lost the 4e players mostly and gain almost none of the old players. So I think it would be a mistake.</p><p></p><p>2) Could new products be made to appeal to 4e and older editions at the same time? Honestly no, the design and game play for 4e I think is to different to pull it off. I think one or more of the editions would just have a odd tacked on feel and worse case is all of them do and it doesn't play to the strengths of any of them enough.</p><p></p><p>3) Can WotC cater to 4e and older editions as a company? Can they sure but unless they higher more people it would cut into 4e design. I think there best bet would be to make better PDF's of older edition books and sell them and offer them as a PoD. I do agree with Scribbler that even if people bought the books to play with Pathfinder or a retro clone who cares. A sold book is a sold book. Especially once the new scans for PDF's was done it wouldn't have any over head anymore. So once enough of each book was sold to pay for the time and such for the new PDF, it would then just be pure profit.</p><p></p><p>I honestly don't think them selling older editions in PDF and PoD would have a big impact on who plays what. I do think it would generate some sales and a lot of good will, which honestly the second I think is more important than the first for WotC. Especially if they plan a 5e in the near future. Getting a positive rep before then so the maximum number of people will at least check out 5e when it comes I think would make any time and effort into older edition PDF's pay off if 5e is any good at all.</p><p></p><p>Of course that's just my personal opinion and could be wrong, but obviously I don't think I am. <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 :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dark Mistress, post: 5665562, member: 11816"] There seems to be several intertwined conversations going on at once in this thread. 1) Do I think a new version of DnD could appeal to older editions and to current? I think it is possible, but highly unlikely. It would be a high risk vs high reward, with a screw up likely being the death of DnD if it fell in between and they lost the 4e players mostly and gain almost none of the old players. So I think it would be a mistake. 2) Could new products be made to appeal to 4e and older editions at the same time? Honestly no, the design and game play for 4e I think is to different to pull it off. I think one or more of the editions would just have a odd tacked on feel and worse case is all of them do and it doesn't play to the strengths of any of them enough. 3) Can WotC cater to 4e and older editions as a company? Can they sure but unless they higher more people it would cut into 4e design. I think there best bet would be to make better PDF's of older edition books and sell them and offer them as a PoD. I do agree with Scribbler that even if people bought the books to play with Pathfinder or a retro clone who cares. A sold book is a sold book. Especially once the new scans for PDF's was done it wouldn't have any over head anymore. So once enough of each book was sold to pay for the time and such for the new PDF, it would then just be pure profit. I honestly don't think them selling older editions in PDF and PoD would have a big impact on who plays what. I do think it would generate some sales and a lot of good will, which honestly the second I think is more important than the first for WotC. Especially if they plan a 5e in the near future. Getting a positive rep before then so the maximum number of people will at least check out 5e when it comes I think would make any time and effort into older edition PDF's pay off if 5e is any good at all. Of course that's just my personal opinion and could be wrong, but obviously I don't think I am. :) [/QUOTE]
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