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People shout at WotC when they do anything new. Or anything old.

The best D&D books I've ever read is the Defenders of Magic trilogy by Mary Kirchoff. Night of the Eye, The Medusa Plague and The...

Bought it. https://www.enworld.org/threads/what-are-you-reading-in-2025.709371/post-9791118

Found a WotC Talislanta novel at the used book store this past weekend. Helped them re-shelve it with other RPG novel tie-ins instead of...

The authors had no real control over that kind of thing. As you figured, it would have been decided at the department head and company...

Yes, that's exactly what I was saying. I love having maps in novels so I can trace out the paths of the protagonists. The villages...

Absolutely. All important points. And before the TSR purchase, WotC had tried fiction both internally and as a license, with results...

In defense of WotC at the time - their skill set was direct distribution into the hobby channel for MtG. In addition, they could see the...

Ah, okay. Yup. That's a totally legit gripe. The company had included color maps in some paperbacks to mark them as "prestige" releases...

I think Starmaster was saying that the HC not having the map, but the PB having the map was the annoying part, as completionists would...

@Echohawk lots of great information here! Thanks for quantifying all the numbers, too. Great stuff. I'll read through again when I get...

I mean, they have novels now, they just aren't assuming any risk for it, and letting the professional publishers do their work.

So ignorance at the highest levels. By the point there would have been well over 500 D&D novels and roughly 80 MtG novels, but hey your...

No. The deal meant TSR was getting paid on ship rather than on sale for everything, not just fiction. The company overproduced and...

Hasbro also has limited experience with the book trade, which operates on different rules than the sale channels they are used to...