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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Man in the Funny Hat" data-source="post: 5994362" data-attributes="member: 32740">Well, if I've heard correctly, their ENTIRE back catalog will be made available in digital form again.  So far, of physical reprints they have done 1E (with the honorable, albeit arguably token gesture of donating part of the proceeds to the Gygax statue) and now announced they will reprint 3.5.Where is there indication 2E is being SNUBBED?  Why have they not announced reprints of the LBBs?  Why not the Rules Cyclopedia?  Pick ANY version that is not 1E or 3.5 and by your criteria they're being SNUBBED.Just because they haven't announced anything else doesn't mean it won't happen.  Just because they might pick one edition before others doesn't equate to glorification of one over another.  Any such choice almost certainly has everything to do with sorting out legalities first, followed by the costs and effort of preparing new prints versus expected sales.  2E would no doubt require completely resetting the whole books just as with 1E.  Even if it doesn't happen you're assigning motivations to their lack of current actions which at best is precipitate and unsupportable.As has been suggested by others I think all of this release in various forms of older material is likely directly related to the announcement of 5E not being released for another 2 years.  It will have SOME bearing on how 5E is ultimately received but it also means they are nursing it as a revenue stream.  And I would emphasize the word "stream".  They don't want to just dump four different sets of reprints of old versions of the game onto the market at once.  They want to announce a given reprinted version, build some anticipation for reception of that version, release it and let the inevitably limited sales of it run their course, then announce the NEXT release.I know that there ARE a lot of 2E fans out there.  Of all the "old school" users I think they are the quietest.  They're a big percentage but they're just not as vocal, not the forum-active champions of their version that devotees of the other versions are.  If I had to guess I'd say that they were almost trained to keep quiet.  Upon its release 2E faced detractors complaining about it being dumbed down and bowing to political correctness (which was not entirely unwarranted...) and later on most definitely took hits for the uncontrolled bloat.  This all in addition to legitimate complaints that any edition must face for straight-forward failings and errors in the rules, and at a time when the platforms for building and maintaining a "sub-community" were fractured and undeveloped.Why 3.5 and not some other version?  Because those books are in a format which can, with minimal work, simply be handed to ANY publisher with an order for X-thousand copies, and expect that those copies will all sell just as predicted, the revenue pocketed, even while work begins/continues on the next version to be reprinted - even if UNANNOUNCED.</blockquote>

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