D&D General Melf's Guide to Greyhawk Coming From Luke Gygax & WotC

[GothmogIV]

Could Wizards want to create a rules-lite game that is geared towards OSR play? They could but I doubt they would. It would have to be based upon overall reaction to this product if any rules towards grittiness prove incredibly popular. It’s basically asking Wizards to create a second D&D game - a new paradigm of basic and advanced.

There would have to be some really compelling sales to make them do that.

I have wondered if more/most of the dollars currently going toward other systems--DCC, Castles&Crusades, etc.--went back to D&D if it would make financial sense for them to have a well-supported rules variant that was more old school. Probably not. Sigh. A man can dream.