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Message: <blockquote data-quote="masshysteria" data-source="post: 3268075" data-attributes="member: 16055">This was the same story for Alternity. A fairly reasonable seller (a gold mine for any other publisher), but nothing like D&D. It didn't bring in the money to support keeping the system around, especially in light of the coming launch of d20 and the OGL. I'm only pointing this out to show even alright sales numbers don't mean everything.I'm not predicting doom and gloom regarding d20Modern. I think we'll see something like what happened with Star Wars. The line will quietly lose support, but no announcements will be made saying it is dead. Then we'll see it come back as a new revision with a bunch of new and interesting game mechanics (chase rules, a change to how damage is handled, etc.), probably soon after D&D 4.The only question is, do players prefer the new version to branch off in a different direction than D&D 4 or have it mesh almost perfectly with D&D 4 (making D&D 4 + d20Modern 2 somewhat of a universal system)?Personally, I'd love to see it go in a different direction. I like the heroic fantasy feeling of D&D for D&D, but I want something more along the lines of cinematic realism for modern and sci-fi games (I haven't found anything better than Alternity for this currently).</blockquote>