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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Majoru Oakheart" data-source="post: 6280244" data-attributes="member: 5143">I just don't see it.  That requires someone at WOTC to read through, take notes on, and spend a lot of time and effort creating new monsters and stats for each book.  This is especially difficult for 3.5e where a single monster can take an hour or two to stat up.I believe that they offered conversion notes for the first 2 sundering adventures because D&D Next wasn't out yet and a lot of people don't want to play a playtest.  This way people who wouldn't be interested in D&D Next would buy and download the adventures.  Then they offer the 3rd with no conversion notes working only in D&D Next with a basic outline of the rules.  I think the entire goal is to get people to read the new adventures and to like the format and design.  Then when they go to buy the next one in the series...BOOM, play D&D Next or don't play.I'm virtually positive that WOTC's strategy is simple: Don't badmouth other games or other editions.  Show that they are perfectly open to those who want to continue playing older editions by offering them books to purchase and goodwill articles on their website.  But encourage them as subtly as possible to convert to the new edition(with as minimal expense as possible).  That way it doesn't look like they are forcing anyone to switch(which many people felt about the last edition) and WOTC comes out looking as good as possible even to people who decide not to switch.</blockquote>

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