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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kanegrundar" data-source="post: 1961603" data-attributes="member: 3913">Like it or not since WotC went with the Open Gaming Lisence, 3E is bigger than just D&D.  Changing over to 4E, and (possibly) not being compatible with all the various systems, like AU, that use 3E as a base would alienate alot of people that while are technically playing 3E and buy 3E material, still don't play straight D&D.  Just take a look around the boards and you'll see the factioning going on.  There are a lot of people that state what version of 3E they are playing.  Do you really think that they would do that if they were making wide use of both versions?  I doubt it.  That suggests sub-systems of 3E to me and that suggests and fractioning of the marketshare.  Those people that stuck with 3.0 and didn't buy 3.5 are not likely to pick up 4.0.  After all, they didn't change over the last time, so they wouldn't be any more likely to now.  Plus, there are many people that don't play anything other than D20 Modern, or any one of the other OGL games like Grim Tales or EQ, but still use D&D material to supplement their games in those other 3E-based sub-systems.  Sure the OGL allows other publishers to propogate the D20 system, but several are creating their own versions that have, at times, limited portability into mainstream D&D or D20 Modern.  The idea that just because all these games are D20 and that they are (somewhat) compatible doesn't mean that people are finding a sub-system that they like and saying to heck with the rest.  That's just being blind.Kane</blockquote>

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