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<blockquote data-quote="Ariosto" data-source="post: 5415454" data-attributes="member: 80487">Which WotC has made, according to the rationale for new &quot;editions&quot;.Remember? The Cash Cow has already bought twice or three times all that &quot;IP&quot; invented in the 1970s-80s, so we've got no choice but to recycle it again in a form that makes C.C. feel obligated to pay out again in order to &quot;keep up.&quot;People who are not yet into WotC-D&amp;D don't even know, much less care about &quot;3.0 this&quot; or &quot;Bo9S that&quot; ... any of the arcana that makes 3e or 4e so appealing (and the other not) to the initiates who are already steeped in it.I didn't even know 3e existed until I happened to have some time to kill near a &quot;comics &amp; games&quot; shop. Having stopped buying Official AD&amp;D &quot;product&quot; in the 1990s, I did not recognize this stuff, either.Goblins in D&amp;D are green now? Why? A newbie would not even have the basis to wonder, never having known it to be otherwise!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ariosto, post: 5415454, member: 80487"] Which WotC has made, according to the rationale for new "editions". Remember? The Cash Cow has [b]already bought twice or three times[/b] all that "IP" invented in the 1970s-80s, so [b]we've got no choice but to recycle it again in a form that makes C.C. feel obligated to pay out again in order to "keep up."[/b] People who are not yet into WotC-D&D [b]don't even know, much less care[/b] about "3.0 this" or "Bo9S that" ... any of the arcana that makes 3e or 4e so appealing (and the other not) to the initiates who are already steeped in it. I didn't even know 3e [i]existed[/i] until I happened to have some time to kill near a "comics & games" shop. Having stopped buying Official AD&D "product" in the 1990s, I did not recognize this stuff, either. Goblins in D&D are green now? Why? A newbie would not even have the basis to wonder, never having known it to be otherwise! [/QUOTE]

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