Welcome everyone to another installment of the D&D podcast. I'm your host Mike Merles and joining me this week are

Jeremy Crawford. Hi everyone.

Rodney Thompson.

Hey everybody. And our special guest Steve Winter.

Hello.

So this week we are going to talk about the upcoming reissue of the second edition

A.D. and D core rulebooks.

So sit back, relax, and enjoy the show. All right, so we actually just had copies of the reprint of the Second Edition Coral Books

dropped on the table here. We're having the podcast. And so Steve Steve why don't you tell us a little bit

about your relationship to these books and your role in bringing second edition to the world?

Oh wow well where to start we had the idea to do a revised edition of A. and D had been kicking around for quite a few years around the company and the you know the common wisdom was that we would never get permission, right?

Because it definitely was a kind of a ground up movement, right?

Started in R&D and worked its way up through the chain of command.

And so we talked about it a lot and the things we would kind of that we would want to change.

And unearth Arcana had obviously changed a bunch of things and then when we did Oriental Adventures that was sort of a

testing ground for a bunch of ideas that we had and it was really popular. That helped a lot. But we wound up, we sold the idea to

management because of course the executives were terrified of the idea of

upsetting the whole customer base and driving away customers.

Coupled with the idea of, well, if we put out a new book, what happens to all the old books. We have stores with all these books.

We won't sell any players handbooks for a year

while we're making the new one,

because everyone will know the new one's coming.

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