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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shemeska" data-source="post: 5843600" data-attributes="member: 11697">It's potentially a really good idea, but there are some logistical and some ideological stumbling points I can see looming. Right now it's arguable that they're running pretty tight on having the staff available for the e-zines to put out 4e content on time and in reasonable amount each month for subscriber expectations. If they start accepting material for 1e/2e/3e/OD&D/BECMI/etc how much more heavily is that going to tax their resources if they want to devote the proper time to editing and playtesting material? And would that cause errors to trickle in due to confusion between related rulesets? Do they have people on staff that are intimately familiar with each of the possible rulesets, and people good enough with the edition specific lore for various campaign settings? That's potentially a lot of extra staff they might need to hire, and a lot of dividing up their time. Wanting to avoid stretched resources away from what they know best is for instance one of the reasons Paizo gave for not being interested in doing 4e material.Another stumbling block is how to handle articles for various settings. If for instance (completely hypothetical here) I wanted to write an article set in the 3e/1370ish era for FR, even if that article was using 3e rules and set in the 3e era FR timeline, would I be required to assume that everything that happened (or was retconned in) with 4e FR for instance needed to be strictly adhered to? And if I did, what's the point then of trying to do 3.x era support if it's not going to be completely supporting it? Would WotC be willing to let folks write for different eras of campaign setting support and possibly introduce (accidentally, or intentionally) things that conflict with later era/edition continuity?Allowing true multiple era support could be something of an insane editorial headache given the rather, umm, conflicted (to say it nicely) feelings about some eras versus others (pre and post Spellplague 4e, post Faction War Planescape, etc).That said, I'd jump through flaming hoops to do some Planescape articles (either pre or post Faction War, I like it all). <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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