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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 7899544" data-attributes="member: 42582">Suppose it's true that people want &quot;official&quot; products. A further question is why do they want them to be continually reprinted?I just checked DM's Guild and the GH boxed set is on sale there for US $9.99. I've used (bits of) that boxed set for games using AD&amp;D, Rolemaster and Burning Wheel. About the only mechanical information in it is stats for gods (which I've never used), variant abilities for clerics (which I've found are easily adapted to other systems) and class and levels for ruling NPCs. A 5e GM could use those classes and levels basically as written, given that all the AD&amp;D classes are found in 5e. And the 5e cleric subclasses + backgrounds could easily sub for the variant cleric abilities.So why do people keep asking for GH to be &quot;redone&quot; for 5e? What are they actually asking for? Why do they need to pay again to read the same stories they've already read?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 7899544, member: 42582"] Suppose it's true that people want "official" products. A further question is [B]why do they want them to be continually reprinted?[/B] I just checked DM's Guild and the GH boxed set is on sale there for US $9.99. I've used (bits of) that boxed set for games using AD&D, Rolemaster and Burning Wheel. About the only mechanical information in it is stats for gods (which I've never used), variant abilities for clerics (which I've found are easily adapted to other systems) and class and levels for ruling NPCs. A 5e GM could use those classes and levels basically as written, given that all the AD&D classes are found in 5e. And the 5e cleric subclasses + backgrounds could easily sub for the variant cleric abilities. [B]So why do people keep asking for GH to be "redone" for 5e? [/B]What are they actually asking for? Why do they need to pay again to read the same stories they've already read? [/QUOTE]

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