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Jeff, I've been meaning to ask: Why are you up posting on EN World at what must be 4:00 AM your time?

Jeff, you may be right, but I'll counter with a couple of my perceptions: First, the suits are almost always invoked in a context of bitterness. Second, it may seem charitable to deflect blame, but as I've posted already, doing so can seem tantamount to saying the individuals have no actual...

I love Dilbert. I also love Get Fuzzy, but it doesn't inform my views on the behaviour of my cat and dog.

Well, to be honest, my agenda is a lot broader. I abhor cynicism. Especially groundless cynicism. Especially especially groundless cynicism that is presented as authoritative fact by people who have no actual insight into the matter at hand. Especially especially especially "authoritative fact"...

Bingo!

I agree. Despite crossing swords with El Mahdi in recent conversations, he's no justanobody.

Absolutely fair enough. But to basically state that nothing they can currently do, or are likely to be able to do within a few years, will allow the benefit of doubt is, I think, extreme. It seems to me that that's what's being said here.

I would say a 180-degree change would be to not issue any open license, to actively fight anyone attempting to make D&D-compatible products, and perhaps even return to the sort of fan-hostile stance of TSR. None of us have seen the final GSL, so I for one am not prepared to definitively...

Wake up soon, Reveille. Mandy, you and he are both in my thoughts. Thanks for keeping us informed.

Bingo. This is exactly my point. Not that you have to be happy with WotC's performance, or that you should blindly hand them your money. Just that refusing to extend the benefit of the doubt is an extreme reaction, and that the standards some people are setting are too high for WotC, or anyone...

Yeah, but the editorial calendar article is also dated 2008, and it's clearly current (or at least not a 2008 article). So I don't know how to interpret the 2008 date on the WotC side. The boingboing page, however, is clearly 2008, not just from the date, but also because of the reference to...

Talk about sidestepping with a dismissive turn of phrase!

But opinions varied since day 1. And what major, groundbreaking initiative has ever been perfectly implemented the first time? There's virtually nothing I've ever done in my entire life, no matter how successful, that I can't look back on with the benefit of hindsight and say "if I ever do that...

I think you're making my point for me, but from the other side. It's the people who assume a "cadre of suits" are mandating the decisions of the hardworking custodians of D&D (Brand and R&D) which is dismissive. Such assumptions relegate the people who work hard and make hard decisions to the...

You're correct. I meant 27 January. It's now correct in the post. (I should have called for editors, not math-checkers!)

Steve, thanks for the cogent, rational response. That said, I disagree. Scott Rouse has discussed the GSL many times, and made it very clear that he's the one responsible for it, at least at the implementation level. Given no preconceptions, it seems that the default assumption should be that...

So a product was promised on 6 June, 2008, and delivered, in its full version, on 27 January 2009. That's seven months and 21 days late, assuming you give no credit for any pre-final version. So I guess I "revised and spun" by three weeks. Sorry. [For all of you who keep posting that the CB was...

It's easy to think that something you can hold has intrinsic value, but is there really that big a difference between the physical and the intangible, in terms of value? If physicality confers value, nothing should be more valuable than real estate. And yet we've seen real estate values...

Wow. Guess you get what you pay for. I look at skill challenges as a way for the players to help shape how things unfold. I announce that a skill challenge has started, and, if the goal isn't obvious, we have a brief discussion of what the goal is and what the consequences of failure are. Then...

By "deliver on promised software," do mean that the final product must exactly match the initial announcement, in content and timing of release? If so, nothing they have announced to date could meet that definition. In other words, you will not extend the benefit of doubt until after they...