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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pramas" data-source="post: 2635042" data-attributes="member: 995">No. What I was saying is that I don't know if WotC's intent from the get-go was to essentially produce a new edition or whether that was an unintentional by-product of the design process. I know from my time at WotC that the original 3E plan did not involve a revision in 2003. That was decided on later. So did the folks in charge say, "We really need to do a new edition but there's no way the fanbase will go for it 2003. Let's call it 3.5 and pretend it's more of a revision than a new edition"? Or did the design process start with the goal of a revision and just go too far? I'd say the latter more likely than the former, but either one is possible. In any case, several important factors contributed to the decline of the d20 market, as I mentioned before. The upshot of all this is that two years after 3.5 there are maybe a half dozen print publishers still supporting d20 in a meaningful sense. I would not be surprised if even this small number drops next year. If 2002 was the height of the glut, I believe we are approaching the nadir. The Green Ronin d20 strategy in 2004-2005 was to hang tough, keep putting out the quality books we are known for, watch a lot of our competition fade away, and then reap the benefits. Well, here we are, still supporting d20 with new lines like Thieves' World (and product #2 of that line is an adventure no less) and even doing a new d20 Modern setting (Damnation Decade), but we have yet to see the Great d20 Rebound. 2006 will be an interesting year.</blockquote>

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