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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 5691869" data-attributes="member: 22779">Not to be snarky, but, Paizo could probably produce pretty much anything it wants and it wouldn't get any specific flak or derision simply because it wouldn't even come close to appearing on the radar.OTOH, WOTC is a whole lot more visible to the general public.  WOTC does occassionally get mentioned in mainstream press, for example.  And, I'm pretty sure that the lawyers overseeing things at Hasbro would nix anything like Al Qadim, if for no other reason than the similarities of the name to hot political topics.As to why doesn't WOTC re-release 3e?  Why bother?  For one, it couldn't possibly compete with the used book market - how much 3e stuff is still out there on shelves?  For another, there's no way the distributors would do it either because they'd know they'd be in for a pretty hard sell.  Finally, if you owned an FLGS, would you stock a newly released 3.5 PHB to sit right beside the original 3.5 PHB you've still got sitting on your shelf?Let's not forget, before 4e, before Pathfinder, 3.5 was dying.  Sales had dropped off, virtually every 3pp was out of D&D (with a couple of notable exceptions) and it was bringing in no new blood.Why on earth would you rerelease that?</blockquote>