Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="Pentius" data-source="post: 5692356" data-attributes="member: 6676736">There might be wiggle room to argue about whether printing new content for 3.5 would be viable, or even special editions of the core 3 with new art and flavor text or somesuch.&nbsp; Adventures, too.&nbsp; But a straight reprint of the core 3 would be a terrible move.&nbsp; A quick glance at ebay shows that I could get the entire core 3 for as much or less than WotC would want for each individual book.&nbsp; Yes, books degrade over time.&nbsp; But how much time?&nbsp; These are hardbacks, not tissue paper.&nbsp; I still have my core 3(and somehow two copies of the PHB) and Deities and Demigods for AD&amp;D1e, and those survived not only 30+ years of existence, but most of them in the hands of a child.&nbsp; And they're not even missing pages.&nbsp; Heck, another quick look at ebay shows that I could grab a D&amp;D Basic book for probably less than WotC would want for it(if they could print it new).&nbsp; If more print runs of these old books were to be considered, it would have to be after the current run is no longer in wide circulation.So, even if they did reprint the core 3, and I were in the market to buy them, I would not buy them from wotc.&nbsp; Anyone who did would either be A: Not shopping around, or B: Doing it out of loyalty and goodwill toward WotC.And depending on loyalty and goodwill from 3.5 fans who haven't moved to 4e is not a stroke of genius.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Pentius, post: 5692356, member: 6676736"] There might be wiggle room to argue about whether printing new content for 3.5 would be viable, or even special editions of the core 3 with new art and flavor text or somesuch. Adventures, too. But a straight reprint of the core 3 would be a terrible move. A quick glance at ebay shows that I could get the entire core 3 for as much or less than WotC would want for each individual book. Yes, books degrade over time. But how much time? These are hardbacks, not tissue paper. I still have my core 3(and somehow two copies of the PHB) and Deities and Demigods for AD&D1e, and those survived not only 30+ years of existence, but most of them in the hands of a child. And they're not even missing pages. Heck, another quick look at ebay shows that I could grab a D&D Basic book for probably less than WotC would want for it(if they could print it new). If more print runs of these old books were to be considered, it would have to be after the current run is no longer in wide circulation. So, even if they did reprint the core 3, and I were in the market to buy them, I would not buy them from wotc. Anyone who did would either be A: Not shopping around, or B: Doing it out of loyalty and goodwill toward WotC. And depending on loyalty and goodwill from 3.5 fans who haven't moved to 4e is not a stroke of genius. [/QUOTE]

Verification