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<blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 6663983" data-attributes="member: 1465"><p>As for <em>longevity</em>, the best thing to do is to design a very solid core game, which is already in the past now. Older editions of D&D are still being played by thousands of groups, even if no new material is published for them, and that's what longevity means to me. If you mean longevity = stretching the time between editions, I suspect that this has zero value for a publisher.</p><p></p><p>As for <em>sustainability</em>, from a publisher's point of view one possibility is to keep reinventing the wheel, create problems that don't exist so that you can keep 'fixing' them with additions and revisions, and move on to a new edition again, trying to choose the timing so that the number of frustrated gamers who quit following editions is balanced with the new generation entering the hobby. The other option is to focus on producing fiction (incl. adventures and fantasy settings sourcebooks), but probably this is sustainable only at smaller volumes.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Li Shenron, post: 6663983, member: 1465"] As for [I]longevity[/I], the best thing to do is to design a very solid core game, which is already in the past now. Older editions of D&D are still being played by thousands of groups, even if no new material is published for them, and that's what longevity means to me. If you mean longevity = stretching the time between editions, I suspect that this has zero value for a publisher. As for [I]sustainability[/I], from a publisher's point of view one possibility is to keep reinventing the wheel, create problems that don't exist so that you can keep 'fixing' them with additions and revisions, and move on to a new edition again, trying to choose the timing so that the number of frustrated gamers who quit following editions is balanced with the new generation entering the hobby. The other option is to focus on producing fiction (incl. adventures and fantasy settings sourcebooks), but probably this is sustainable only at smaller volumes. [/QUOTE]
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