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Message: <blockquote data-quote="an_idol_mind" data-source="post: 4670652" data-attributes="member: 43749">I'd love it if WotC continued to support 3rd edition, but it's totally unrealistic and unreasonable to expect them to. That doesn't make them an evil company - it makes them competent. As to citing the fact that TSR used to print 1st and 2nd edition simultaneously or that they had the basic D&D game going on at the same time, it boggles my mind that people would hold up anything TSR did as good business. Sure, the company didn't fall apart completely until the 1997, but bad business managment had defined TSR since at least the mid-80s. If anything, I would argue that their business strategies probably kept the game from being an even bigger hit that it was during the 80s. Regarding the analogies to the record companies, car companies, et cetera, that's comparing apples to atom bombs. The fact is, there is no example in the RPG industry or related industries of a company simultaneously supporting multiple editions and pulling it off with any sort of business success. To expect WotC to support a dead edition for a game or to hand someone else their intellectual property and empower them as a direct competitor is unrealistic at best. Finally, I don't see the point in longing for an official license from WotC when many dead editions currently have support in some form thanks to the OGL. BECMI has Labyrinth Lord, 1st edition has OSRIC, and 3rd edition has Pathfinder (albeit modified and updated). That's more support than any old edition of any RPG has ever received right there.</blockquote>

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