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<blockquote data-quote="Windjammer" data-source="post: 5751631" data-attributes="member: 60075"><p>I forgot to answer to that earlier. Thanks for the reply to my post, and for a lot of food for thought. I agree with nearly all of it, except for the bit I quoted here (though I don't personally see myself in the camp of 'wanting WotC to fail'). </p><p></p><p>The people fired this year have a long history with D&D, one that goes way back even before WotC took over D&D or Hasbro took over WotC. </p><p></p><p>As others have pointed out, Steve has written for early Greyhawk material, and Rich was very active in 2nd edition - indeed, without him, things like Birthright would not exist. These are people who've shaped our game for the better part of 20 years.</p><p></p><p>It's fair to say that both authors have garnered support and fandom above and beyond whatever happens to be the <em>currently </em>favoured design directive at the company they're working at. This also explains why people with little brand loyalty left for D&D feel sad Steve and Rich are leaving. There's no disconnect at all. </p><p></p><p>People with Rich and Steve's historical perspective and design talent could have helped to make (what's left of) 4E and (what's yet to come of) 5E a better game. Only time will tell.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Interesting development. While I'm sorry SRM will lose some extra income on the side, I always thought his blog (NeoGrognard) to contain much better content on 4E than what he wrote in 'Save my Game'. For instance, check out <a href="http://www.neogrognard.com/article/283/ritual" target="_blank">this column</a> and <a href="http://www.neogrognard.com/article/286/disenchanted" target="_blank">his one</a> on rituals and item creatino - these helped my game more than anything on rituals I ever chanced across in DDI. And they're free! </p><p></p><p>So letting his gig go comes across to me as...</p><p> a great loss to WotC, </p><p> a small loss to Stephen, and </p><p> <em>hardly any loss at all</em> to his faithful readers.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Windjammer, post: 5751631, member: 60075"] I forgot to answer to that earlier. Thanks for the reply to my post, and for a lot of food for thought. I agree with nearly all of it, except for the bit I quoted here (though I don't personally see myself in the camp of 'wanting WotC to fail'). The people fired this year have a long history with D&D, one that goes way back even before WotC took over D&D or Hasbro took over WotC. As others have pointed out, Steve has written for early Greyhawk material, and Rich was very active in 2nd edition - indeed, without him, things like Birthright would not exist. These are people who've shaped our game for the better part of 20 years. It's fair to say that both authors have garnered support and fandom above and beyond whatever happens to be the [I]currently [/I]favoured design directive at the company they're working at. This also explains why people with little brand loyalty left for D&D feel sad Steve and Rich are leaving. There's no disconnect at all. People with Rich and Steve's historical perspective and design talent could have helped to make (what's left of) 4E and (what's yet to come of) 5E a better game. Only time will tell. Interesting development. While I'm sorry SRM will lose some extra income on the side, I always thought his blog (NeoGrognard) to contain much better content on 4E than what he wrote in 'Save my Game'. For instance, check out [URL="http://www.neogrognard.com/article/283/ritual"]this column[/URL] and [url=http://www.neogrognard.com/article/286/disenchanted]his one[/Url] on rituals and item creatino - these helped my game more than anything on rituals I ever chanced across in DDI. And they're free! So letting his gig go comes across to me as... a great loss to WotC, a small loss to Stephen, and [I]hardly any loss at all[/I] to his faithful readers. [/QUOTE]
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