What would it take for legacy content to be added back to DDB? There are many of us that would spend our hard-earned money to buy such content.
Another idea: Since virtually every piece of official content from previous versions has been digitized, how cool would it be to make it all available? Everything from OD&D, BECMI, AD&D1e, AD&D2e, 3e/3.5e, and 4e. I'm positive WotC would make a killing on it all.
For those that want just one edition or another, but want to use content from other versions, there are conversion instructions to convert to any version you like.
I imagine the first stumbling block is obtaining the text. If you look at the sales from DM's Guild of older content, a lot of it contains low quality scans, because they don't have original sources. The second part is, to make it 'work' in D&D Beyond, would require a massive amount of coding to make each part function properly. On a greater scale than the 2014->2024 work. I imagine implementing THAC0, would have zero overlap with their existing AC code.
So while they could make quite a bit of money on the simple sales of sources, they're already doing that on DM's Guild where you can buy all of that content. The coding so the products work in like existing character sheets would be massive for not a big reward.
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What would it take for legacy content to be added back to DDB? There are many of us that would spend our hard-earned money to buy such content.
Another idea: Since virtually every piece of official content from previous versions has been digitized, how cool would it be to make it all available? Everything from OD&D, BECMI, AD&D1e, AD&D2e, 3e/3.5e, and 4e. I'm positive WotC would make a killing on it all.
For those that want just one edition or another, but want to use content from other versions, there are conversion instructions to convert to any version you like.
I imagine the first stumbling block is obtaining the text. If you look at the sales from DM's Guild of older content, a lot of it contains low quality scans, because they don't have original sources. The second part is, to make it 'work' in D&D Beyond, would require a massive amount of coding to make each part function properly. On a greater scale than the 2014->2024 work. I imagine implementing THAC0, would have zero overlap with their existing AC code.
So while they could make quite a bit of money on the simple sales of sources, they're already doing that on DM's Guild where you can buy all of that content. The coding so the products work in like existing character sheets would be massive for not a big reward.