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<blockquote data-quote="AntiStateQuixote" data-source="post: 4363106" data-attributes="member: 30770"><p>I find the number of true techies (people that do it for a living and actually <em>know</em> what they are doing) that also play D&D is remarkably low. I work for a relatively large software development consutling firm. Of the 100+ software developers I have met in my company (of about 2500 developers) I am the only one who plays D&D until recently. A guy I talk to at work regularly recently picked the game up again after a hiatus of many years (pre-3rd edition).</p><p></p><p>I play in a large group of and know a great many more role-players in the Houston area. I cannot name a single D&D player that also develops software professionally in Houston other than me. I know they are out there, and I know this is anecdotal evidence, but I believe the convergence of D&D players and honest-to-goodness software developers is actually pretty low.</p><p></p><p>Edit: oh, yeah, and I doubt WotC is paying top dollar for their software development. Too many people lowballing the bid to do their "dream job" of developing software for D&D probably cuts down the truly top end devs that would do the work. I know I wouldn't take a pay cut to do the work, but I would love to do it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AntiStateQuixote, post: 4363106, member: 30770"] I find the number of true techies (people that do it for a living and actually [i]know[/i] what they are doing) that also play D&D is remarkably low. I work for a relatively large software development consutling firm. Of the 100+ software developers I have met in my company (of about 2500 developers) I am the only one who plays D&D until recently. A guy I talk to at work regularly recently picked the game up again after a hiatus of many years (pre-3rd edition). I play in a large group of and know a great many more role-players in the Houston area. I cannot name a single D&D player that also develops software professionally in Houston other than me. I know they are out there, and I know this is anecdotal evidence, but I believe the convergence of D&D players and honest-to-goodness software developers is actually pretty low. Edit: oh, yeah, and I doubt WotC is paying top dollar for their software development. Too many people lowballing the bid to do their "dream job" of developing software for D&D probably cuts down the truly top end devs that would do the work. I know I wouldn't take a pay cut to do the work, but I would love to do it. [/QUOTE]
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