Wizards to re-issue DnD 3.5 edition core books in september!

After having a nose around for the Premium 1st edition books Wizards are due to release I stumbled on the fact that Wizards are re-issuing the 3 core books for 3.5 edition with errata. Anyone else know about this? Is it a way that they can keep the OGL up and running or something else?

They have talked about D&D Next being a modular system that you can potentially pull rules from any edition so they may be re-issuing the books with extra info on how to modularly pull the rules into D&D next. It could also just be similar to what White Wolf did with VtM 20th Edition.

Well, Paizo is already making plenty of money basically rereleasing 3.5 in the form of Pathfinder, so it sounds like a good idea for Wizards. I would hate to be the guys who worked on 4e.

The 4E fiasco, they fired the folks responsible for that. Now they are going to try another edition 5E, Monte Cook was to head that up but I think he's already quit. Wizards will now let 4E die on the vine.

Fiasco? There are many, many of us that consider 4e to be WOTC's best work by far, myself included. I wonder if 4e is REALLY that bad of a sell or if WOTC simply now has more competition... perhaps a bit of both. Oh well, 5e looks like DND Past instead of Next, so I'm likely to keep playing 4e and pathfinder and let WOTC drown themselves trying to market the same product we saw a decade ago.

First of all there is no reason to make this an edition war. Like Stirling said 4E is a lot more popular than most people want to give it credit for. Also Wizards has said that they are not going to just let 4E die. They have said that 5E is suppose to be able to take on different rule sets modularly that make it feel like one of the other editions, so if you play it without extra rules it will seem like 1E or 2E, then there will be rules that you can add to make it play like 3E and rules that you can add to make it play like 4E. Presumably there will also be modular rules that are a combination or completely different from the other editions as well. In regards to 4E it is not like they just brought in some new people and then all of a sudden 4E happened. they had started testing the 4E system all the way back with the Star Wars Saga edition rules. So 4E was a long time coming, they just didn't expect that one side of their consumers would be so vocal. 4E is actually a decent system, not my favorite, but it is ok. I do know a lot of people that got into the hobby because of 4E though and others that love 4E so I on those accounts it couldn't be a fiasco. It definitely lends it self to a specific style of game which some people obviously don't like.

Fiasco? There are many, many of us that consider 4e to be WOTC's best work by far, myself included. I wonder if 4e is REALLY that bad of a sell or if WOTC simply now has more competition... perhaps a bit of both. Oh well, 5e looks like DND Past instead of Next, so I'm likely to keep playing 4e and pathfinder and let WOTC drown themselves trying to market the same product we saw a decade ago.

I like that! DND Past. I would play a 3.5 meets 4th hybrid. Heck, I'll play it if the book says D&D on it. I have been for 30 years.