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Message: <blockquote data-quote="M.L. Martin" data-source="post: 5132626" data-attributes="member: 4086">Room for them both on the shelves? Probably.  Supported by WotC? Probably not.  As I understand it (I'm a wannabe theologian, not an economist <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=":)" /> ), it's a question of opportunity cost. Every dollar of effort WotC spends on producing OS D&D, from their perspective, would be a dollar not spent on 4E, and with far less return on investment. There are other companies that can fill the niche and seem to be doing quite well at it--but from WotC's viewpoint, it's spending resources on a niche market that could be used to sustain the 800-lb. gorilla. This appears to be part of the reason (alongside overproduced Dragon Dice and possibly too many novels) that TSR went under.   I do think there are some low-cost strategies WotC could use to support the game--I still think restoring all the pre-3E PDFs would be a low-risk, potentially high-reward endeavor. I say this as someone who's not particularly happy with any version of D&D, and whose gripes with WotC focus on the end of SWSE and the fact that they've got great settings and concepts--some of them ill-suited to the OTW D&D they espouse--languishing in the vault. <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=":)" /></blockquote>

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