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Message: <blockquote data-quote="billd91" data-source="post: 5708663" data-attributes="member: 3400">I'm going to assume that some company needed to save D&D from years of TSR bankruptcy litigation in order for us to really have the discussion of AD&D being in print at all in 2011. Without that event, I'm not sure any other discussion has a point. I suppose that legal issues could have been resolved and the D&D trademarks and other IP auctioned off sometime in the years after a theoretical TSR collapse, but even so, I think the following analysis could still hold.The decision to not reprint or even allow PDF sales of older edition materials may be idiosyncratic to WotC and the release of 4e - but they also might not be. Any company that obtained D&D from the death of TSR, either through absorption as in WotC's case or after assets have been sold off via bankruptcy and dissolution, would probably have come out with a new, updated edition. Once that's been done, any company could have made the decision not to compete with its own outdated IP by withholding previous versions of the game from the market. I don't see that mindset as being unique to WotC under its current leadership.I don't see reprinting AD&D in physical form as being very likely under any circumstances. Maybe we'd see some retrospective CD/DVD collections like the ones put out by Far Future Enterprises that collect Classic Traveller and MegaTraveller. That's about as far as I'd expect to see under even the most friendly circumstances... circumstances that we weren't that far from under WotC at various points before the 4e launch.</blockquote>

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