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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 3982625" data-attributes="member: 22779">Quoted for Troof.The situation between 3e and 4e is really very different.  At the tail end of 2e, D&D was dying.  TSR had been bought out by a company with no real RPG track record and a fairly loud group of fans decried them as "Magic'izing" D&D with 3e.  WOTC needed to get as much product on the shelves as fast as possible for market penetration.  But, they didn't have the deep pockets to do it.  So, they open up the OGL and let everyone and their brother push D&D stuff onto the shelves.  Suddenly, an entirely new game looks like a mature RPG with loads of supplements, rather than a complete newbie to the hobby.And it worked.  Even though people got burned by the 3e glut and there was loads of crap out there, it still worked.  D&D became popular again, brought back lots of lapsed players and brought in new blood.  Fantastic.This time around, though, it's different.  3e isn't dying.  It might be showing its age a bit, but, lots of people are still playing 3e.  We're not bleeding players into loads of other RPG's because our mechanics are showing their age.  Sure, 3e might not be as profitable now, but, it's still chugging along nicely.WOTC doesn't need help with market penetration in the same way.  3e is a strong brand with a large following.  4e will draw on that, unlike 3e which really had much less to draw on from the 2e brand.  So, we get six months of WOTC and a handful of the established big boys showing their stuff.On another note, I truly hate the idea of losing the d20 hypertext srd.  That was such a godsend.  Not enough that i'm going to pony up 120 bucks a year for it, but, I'll certainly miss it.</blockquote>

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