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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Janx" data-source="post: 3012698" data-attributes="member: 8835">I guess that's what confuses me about OSRIC.  Why would I write a product for 1e rules (or OSRIC) when I could write it for 3E?  Asside from the novelty of it, it seems contrary.In the computer world, nobody in their right mind codes for DOS, Windows 3.x, or  Windows95.  Yes there are some folks still using it, but they are a minority.  And that's not presuming the new is better than the old.  You could pay somebody to code for an old environment, but because it's a smaller niche, you'd charge more (because you'd get fewer sales, or because it's a rarer commodity of people who can code for it).I think it would be different if the majority of the consumer's rejected the newer version, and the majority was using the older, but I'm pretty sure that's not the case.I guess it's not my bag.  I'm certainly not in the target demographic.As for it being a suitable RPG, I'm certain it's just a matter of time.  A little more textual fluffing, and some added material, and your OSRIC could easily be the equivalent of the PH, DMG and MM.  Heck, you could use the items mostly verbatim from the SRD, and the monsters just need converting back to 1e.</blockquote>