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<blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 7879978" data-attributes="member: 996"><p><span style="font-size: 18px"> Yes, there are people who do. There's a thriving market for old books, there's old-edition stuff on DMsG & DriveThru RPG, and there's significant 3pp products targeting 1e/0e and 3.5, as well...</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"></span> WotC made 3.x Open Source, and it turned out 3.x was close enough to prior eds that it was possible to cobble together an arguably-legal version for OSRIC.</p><p></p><p>So 3.x, AD&D, "B/X", and even 0D&D all have substantial 3pp support either out there, ongoing, or at least possible at any time. So there's little point in WotC doing anything more than offering pdfs of the older stuff.</p><p></p><p>As always, the sole exception us 4e, which cannot be cloned under it's much more restrictive GSL. Even so, it's make more sense to move it to an OGL, than to resume support, themselves.</p><p> Actually, D&D <em>was</em> spilt, in that sense, from 1977 on, with 0D&D, AD&D, and B/X all being published simultaneously, and that strategy rode the boom-and-bust of the fad all the way through.</p><p></p><p>In the current environment, there's likely little risk to quietly supporting past eds a bit.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tony Vargas, post: 7879978, member: 996"] [SIZE=5] Yes, there are people who do. There's a thriving market for old books, there's old-edition stuff on DMsG & DriveThru RPG, and there's significant 3pp products targeting 1e/0e and 3.5, as well... [/SIZE] WotC made 3.x Open Source, and it turned out 3.x was close enough to prior eds that it was possible to cobble together an arguably-legal version for OSRIC. So 3.x, AD&D, "B/X", and even 0D&D all have substantial 3pp support either out there, ongoing, or at least possible at any time. So there's little point in WotC doing anything more than offering pdfs of the older stuff. As always, the sole exception us 4e, which cannot be cloned under it's much more restrictive GSL. Even so, it's make more sense to move it to an OGL, than to resume support, themselves. Actually, D&D [I]was[/I] spilt, in that sense, from 1977 on, with 0D&D, AD&D, and B/X all being published simultaneously, and that strategy rode the boom-and-bust of the fad all the way through. In the current environment, there's likely little risk to quietly supporting past eds a bit. [/QUOTE]
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