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<blockquote data-quote="JeffB" data-source="post: 4424329" data-attributes="member: 518">I'm curious to people's reasoning behind the worry of &quot;lack of support for edition X&quot;I can understand this if one is talking about say, a game that received very little to no product support over it's lifetime-e.g. Lords of Creation, Powers &amp; Perils, Timemaster, or any number of games with just a handful of products besides the core rules.However D&amp;D- no matter which edition-has always been supported extremely well by product.BECM- yep- quite a bit of material.1E- again, no huge lack of material.2E- Heh <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue&nbsp; &nbsp; :p"&nbsp; data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> We all know how much TSR pumped out over the years3.X- WOTC supported this with tons of material, and including 3 party publishers- the amount of material available is absolutely staggering.I know that were I interested in running 2E, I could scrape up enough product from TSR that interests me to game for many years. Were I interested in running 3.x, there's no way in H-E-double hockeysticks, I could ever AFFORD all the products that look interesting to me, let alone run out of products to use. This &quot;my edition is no longer supported&quot; panic happened when 3E was announced and then released, and now of course with 4E being released, it seems MUCH worse (and the funny thing is, the OGL allows the 3.x material to continue to be made).I'm not wanting or trying to create an edition wars thread here-I could care less what version of D&amp;D you play or don't.&nbsp; I AM genuinely curious why some (not all) people feel really upset by this, when there is so much material available.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="JeffB, post: 4424329, member: 518"] I'm curious to people's reasoning behind the worry of "lack of support for edition X" I can understand this if one is talking about say, a game that received very little to no product support over it's lifetime-e.g. Lords of Creation, Powers & Perils, Timemaster, or any number of games with just a handful of products besides the core rules. However D&D- no matter which edition-has always been supported extremely well by product. BECM- yep- quite a bit of material. 1E- again, no huge lack of material. 2E- Heh :p We all know how much TSR pumped out over the years 3.X- WOTC supported this with tons of material, and including 3 party publishers- the amount of material available is absolutely staggering. I know that were I interested in running 2E, I could scrape up enough product from TSR that interests me to game for many years. Were I interested in running 3.x, there's no way in H-E-double hockeysticks, I could ever AFFORD all the products that look interesting to me, let alone run out of products to use. This "my edition is no longer supported" panic happened when 3E was announced and then released, and now of course with 4E being released, it seems MUCH worse (and the funny thing is, the OGL allows the 3.x material to continue to be made). I'm not wanting or trying to create an edition wars thread here-I could care less what version of D&D you play or don't. I AM genuinely curious why some (not all) people feel really upset by this, when there is so much material available. [/QUOTE]

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