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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Upper_Krust" data-source="post: 3307531" data-attributes="member: 326">I think there are peaks and troughs. I think the next few years will be one of those troughs (like the early 90s) unless something dramatic is done.See above, my idea retains the OGL and 3rd parties can even license the Dungeons & prefix.There is an interesting parallel to note here.Now, when Wizards of the Coast brought out Dungeons & Dragons 3.5 - how many books did they resell? Players Handbook, Dungeon Masters Guide, Monster Manual, Psionics Handbook (I think)...that was about it.Now admittedly one or two others contained other updated material, but basically that was it.Lets say a pen & paper 4th edition is as big a difference to 3.5 as 3.5 was to 3rd Ed. Where is the great incentive to buy all those books again.Now you can argue well is Krusty saying that if you had 1st/2nd Ed. there was no incentive to buy 3rd Edition. But thats not true. 3rd Edition was a move into full colour, glossy pages which took advantage of modern publishing methods. As a product when placed beside 1st/2nd edition peers it looks far more professional.Secondly 3rd Edition was an update of 20+ year old rules (remember that 2nd Edition was barely little more than D&D 1.25 - if even that). So it had 20 years worth of playtesting and feedback. I just don't see a purely pen & paper route working this time around.</blockquote>