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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 7781905" data-attributes="member: 996">Yeah, most likely.  But I'm not most people, and I'll happily play 3.0 over 3.5 given the chance. (Which, hmmm... I've had maybe once since 3.5 dropped... sigh)I don't remember that. 1e's pace of publication was pretty stately, book a year, at first - at first they'd like, use the proceeds of one book to get the next published. The quality of the later books sure weren't inspiring.But, 1e was /very/ confused and inconsistent, and in dire need of errata for a decade before 2e. The presentation was streamlined anyway. At first. It's one of those alternate-history things we'll never know.  It seemed like WWGS/Storyteller was on top of a shrinking/increasingly-niche TTRPG industry as TSR went under and CCGs dominated with the younger set.  If TSR has been bought by someone disinterested in D&D (what for, who knows) and the property buried for a decade or two, what would have happened?Well, I think the WWGS/STorteller/oWoD phenom would still have imploded.  The post-9/11 zeitgeist just didn't have room for all the dark supernatural conspiracy anti-establishment X-Files angst.  (I hope it's been long enough:  when you think about it, some of the 'good guy' factions in the oWoD should have been jumping for joy over 9/11.)So who would have filled that vacuum?  SJG?</blockquote>