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Message: <blockquote data-quote="shadzar" data-source="post: 5444173" data-attributes="member: 6667746">I dont think supporting all editions would be problematic or "unreasonable". If they have a stable and working database that can pull these things from, and the VTT ever gets finished, then pulling things from that database could allow ANY edition to play in it with at least existing support.No new material would need to be added, just the database updated with existing material.That would give non-current-edition players a reason at least to be interested in DDi and possibly subscribe. There would be a compendium for the edition where you could find the info you need to play, plus ability to play on a decent, or at least, game focused virtual table top.Also other people wanting to look at older edition material to convert or use for gameplay that are subscribers have a LOT more value to their subscription because they could have access to the whole of D&D's history and vast amounts of material to use for whichever game they play. This could even be helpful to the design team for not having to sort through old books to find monsters or items and such to alter for the current edition, because they too could just grab it form the DDi interface and look at it with what they are designing to upgrade it to the new edition.That is just the simplest application. If there was something to scale monsters of older editions by some kind of percentage when viewing them say in the VTT, then that would be a big help also. Otherwise jsut having access and all your players having the same access would make the DDi more broadly usable by many more players just for the simple access to older editions.All that would be needed is a data entry person to fill in those databases with the material and use the existing compendium for the most part with slight changes per edition, to support older editions. Nothing new really need be created for them, as so much already exists.</blockquote>

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