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<blockquote data-quote="Fanaelialae" data-source="post: 7879749" data-attributes="member: 53980"><p>I think there's a reasonable market for earlier editions. They've made many out of print products available on DM's Guild, and they're regularly adding more (including print on demand versions). They wouldn't be doing that if there were no demand.</p><p></p><p>You can also find a fair number of folks on these boards playing earlier editions. It's by no means a majority or anything like that, but they're out there. My group ran a 2e game for a while a few years back, which was fun, although we're pretty solidly a 5e group overall.</p><p></p><p>As for creating new products for older editions, probably not. That contributed to the demise of TSR. It would undoubtedly cost significantly more to develop new material than scan existing stuff, and they probably wouldn't be able to make that cost back. Almost certainly not with anything resembling a real margin of profit.</p><p></p><p>That said, there are plenty of folks still developing material that's compatible with older editions. Other people have modded 5e to play more like those editions (if you have any interest in B/X, Into the Unknown is an excellent example of this).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Fanaelialae, post: 7879749, member: 53980"] I think there's a reasonable market for earlier editions. They've made many out of print products available on DM's Guild, and they're regularly adding more (including print on demand versions). They wouldn't be doing that if there were no demand. You can also find a fair number of folks on these boards playing earlier editions. It's by no means a majority or anything like that, but they're out there. My group ran a 2e game for a while a few years back, which was fun, although we're pretty solidly a 5e group overall. As for creating new products for older editions, probably not. That contributed to the demise of TSR. It would undoubtedly cost significantly more to develop new material than scan existing stuff, and they probably wouldn't be able to make that cost back. Almost certainly not with anything resembling a real margin of profit. That said, there are plenty of folks still developing material that's compatible with older editions. Other people have modded 5e to play more like those editions (if you have any interest in B/X, Into the Unknown is an excellent example of this). [/QUOTE]
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