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Message: <blockquote data-quote="alms66" data-source="post: 5637113" data-attributes="member: 93441">I think a reorganization could work.  Take OD&D and BD&D, make what's common to them standard rules and put in the other stuff from other variations of the rules as optional.  You'll still have the same ruleset, you'll just need to tweak the options.  Granted, I haven't seen anything pre-AD&D 1E in a very long time, so I could be wrong - I have to admit.  But I seriously doubt that they are so very different that it couldn't be done.Take AD&D1 and AD&D2 and do the same.  I'm absolutely certain this one could be done.3E and 4E are unique beasts of their own that I don't see any meshing of those with anything else (well 3.0 and 3.5 + 4E essentials and 4E).Yeah, I seriously doubt WotC sells only 50 copies of anything they make...That and I don't think it would take as many man-hours as you're thinking.In my model, you're just making the editions available again in some form, for those that missed out on it the first time and want to try it, and for those old edition players out there that wished their version still had some form of support with new adventures/settings, etc.  Or just a way to get their hands on a new book if their old one needs replacing.Oh, and btw, if anyone at WotC sees this and thinks it's a good idea.  I just so happen to be available and looking for a new job (as long as I don't have to relocate, of course)!<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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