Recent content by ATimson

Technically, they did - the current company making Chrysler cars is a new company created in mid-2009. "Old" Chrysler sold all their assets to the new company, leaving the old company to rot in bankruptcy with all the debts and contracts they wanted to get rid of.

Producing, yes; selling, no (since they're being repurposed as board game pieces).

Umm... if the 2011 schedule isn't case #2, then what's your definition of "downsizing" that doesn't include cutting releases in half?

If there's going to be an announcement of 2011 product, it'll be at DDXP. Gencon is too late; the late 2011 (and probably early 2012) products will have already been solicited to retailers by then.

I accept your point if you replace Dark Sun (which had player & DM content) with Eberron (which was split like FR). :) That said, if DM material sells so well for Wizards, why are they cutting back? Dark Sun consolidated the player/DM books, and Neverwinter appears to have done the same. DMG3...

Maybe my impatience is because I'm a lapsed fan who only got back into D&D in early December after a year-plus hiatus, but it feels like Wizards is killing the game right as I picked it up (again). So rather than slowly building up my copies of the back catalog new, I've just gone ahead and...

Planned and releasing next month.

PDFs might pay off. I don't see new print runs ever doing so. And I think that their 4e sales would go down as a result of the brand confusion.

Wizards had that.