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Message: <blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 4967568" data-attributes="member: 22424">Congratulations, you've just killed role-playing stone dead.By doing as you suggest, you've just flooded the market with a product no-one can possibly compete with. It took years before TSR were in a position to produce books that were even close to the 4e PHB in terms of presentation (where by 'close' I mean the black-cover 2nd Edition PHB from '95ish - and even that's not very close).Without the ability to compete, we never see the publication of OD&D, or Traveller, or Shadowrun, or...My best guess, then, is that D&D 4e makes a big splash for a couple of years, and then sinks due to a lack of development work.(Now if, on the other hand, you were to anonymously send Gary Gygax a copy of the rulebook just as he was about the start work on 1st Edition Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, things might be very different. Or he might just ignore it entirely - he was on record as saying he preferred 'his' game to 3e, and I doubt he would have felt differently about 4e.)</blockquote>