....is WotC becoming Fantasy Flight Games????
So is WotC turning into Fantasy Flight games?
Nope.
WotC tends to have folks who understand game theory and probability designing its products. I've never really seen an indication that FFG does.
A good understanding of game theory might actually be MORE important than for a traditional RPG, since a good DM can make a bad game shine, and vice versa. With a board game, it either stands on its own or doesn't.
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What FFG games do you find so terrible?
(and to say nothing of the fact that FFG and WotC both publish games designed by a variety of people, so making a blanket statement like that is fairly silly)
The one I hate the most is the WoW boardgame, but Descent suffers from the same problem - the mechanics are buried underneath layers of tokens and special dice.