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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jmucchiello" data-source="post: 5136928" data-attributes="member: 813">They may have included the surveys in places you mentioned but apparently they did do anything with the results. My summary may be harsh but I don't think it misrepresents what Ryan wrote.First, how many non-"return to", non-boxset, non-campaign specific modules did TSR release after PO was released? It's not that many. From the wikipedia page, it looks like at most a dozen. I think they were already slipping down hill at that point.Second, what support would there be? 2e modules did not have complex monster stats. So a 5th level fighter was a 5th level fighter and his point buy specifics from PO aren't really important. Or, they were left for the DM to fiddle with as he choose to or not to.Third, I didn't say "it was meant to be pushed forward". I said it was a direction they were headed. I'm assuming that a 3rd edition was not really in TSR's collective mind. So PO could have been an experiment or just a reaction to the popularity of point buy systems at the time. Heck, if they'd been around in 2002 we'd probably have seen DM option books about adding narrative elements to D&D (in reaction to the Forge) with no real push to create a new edition. PO hangs off of 2e without need for a new edition. Adding subsystems to 2e (kits, PO, wild magic, etc) is part of the whole history of 2e. You only need a 3rd edition if you want to do something radical.</blockquote>