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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Upper_Krust" data-source="post: 3314436" data-attributes="member: 326">Hey Cam! <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=":)" />You could do that (I think this is the Marketing Release Ryan Dancey spoke of) but I don't think even Ryan is convinced its a plausible long term business model for WotC.Every time you bring out a new edition you are going to fracture the market.Now you can say well 3.5 didn't damage the market, and I would agree with that. But as MerricB posted earlier in this thread - there were only about a dozen books by WotC prior to 3.5, so they didn't have a lot to alienate - and it should be pointed out that only one book was reprinted (Psionics) and a few other black and white books were absorbed into newer releases. So the bulk of 3.5 releases have not been re-releases of 3E products. Thats not going to be the case with 4E. How many books have WotC alone brought out since then - probably 100 or so, covering about 95%+ of all the topics they expect to be popular.Therefore its virtually guaranteed that a 4E will try and repackage and re-release existing 3.5 books. They didn't do it with 3.5. They rereleased 1 (non core) book and absorbed some other stuff into different products.You don't have that luxury with 4E because 3.5 already covers so much ground you are going to struggle to come up with new topics - all the main, general topics have been covered. Which means 4E either has to do them all again or get ultra specific (The Complete 15th-level Dwarf Druid, Tarrasqonomicon).Its a catch 22. Radical changes might turn off existing gamers, but keeping it too familiar won't merit new purchases.So then market it as a wholly new game - as long as you don't market it in a secondary capacity or as an introduction to 'something else' I don't have a problem. But marketing this idea as something differnt doesn't solve the problems inherant in a potential 4E pen & paper D&D.</blockquote>

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