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And most of the top RPG creative talent that used to work for WotC and approx half the people who used to play 3.XE and didn't want to transition to 4E and a better perceived PR dynamic and production values as high as anything in the industry and a direct sales program that seems to insulate...

You had such great intentions when you began posting to help make sure Zaukrie didn't misunderstand and then you had to marginalize the folks who think the conversion is important (as well as the staffing issues) under the thin veil of laughing at gamers in general. Oh, Brian! You are such a...

I do and I will continue to argue that position. Nope, it's not the choice. It's what you have allowed yourself to be convinced is the choice. What we have is no choice and we get what we get. What I am arguing is that we would get better from a larger staff, and you agree. So, we've gone...

Thanks for the update/info, MerricB!

Essentials? I've seen nothing but glowing reports, insistence that WotC was never more profitable (just look at their DDI subs!), and that they had more people playing the edition than ever before. Companies with no more than a few people with full-time jobs outside of the gaming industry and...

Call me an optimist. I see a staff that is half full where you see a reason to cut and delay projects. . . . or have enough staff to include the conversion guide . . . Sure, I can imagine some folks would disagree that the best time for the conversion guide is when the new edition is...

I'm with you on this. It's mind-bogglingly delicious. You're cracking me up, man. The DMG was late, they're struggling to get other products out that make money with an ever-decreasing staff, and now they're explaining that someone being out on jury duty is delaying a project from last...

You can't possibly think it isn't something that would have lent itself to more easily being developed in tandem during the playtest. I am sure you understand that part of their goal for the edition was to integrate aspects from all previous editions and utilize people who primarily play one or...

Perhaps because it wasn't developed by playtesters during the playtesting process running up to the release of Basic or the core books and shared at that time instead of six months after the fact having to explain that the conversion guide for the new edition might be approved sometime around...

There's an acronym for that practice: Probably Aren't Interested, Zo Out! Oh, okay. I just got that . . . "Targeting another market" meant to be made up, in part, by crossover customers.

"Commas" are your friends, my friend. :p There seem to be a number of questions raised by all of this: Was the bulk of the conversion guide, that is awaiting approval for four months, developed during the playtest period? Have playtesters been in on the process of creating the conversion...

Sometimes I struggle with your posts but I can fight my way through to understanding them. This one, however, has me on the ropes. I'm guessing "Billy Joel took D&D to court for copyright infringement?" Was it over the "Only the Good Die Young" feat? ;) Seriously, no idea what you were...

Yeah, some folks keep referring to it as a freebie while others look on it as a already-long-overdue part of the edition roll out. Maybe some people don't understand that an edition that is being touted as the one that will bring everyone back to the brand, or forward from older versions of the...

Bearing in mind that some of the products they have already released (core books) have in the past been accompanied by such a conversion guide even when the edition wasn't being touted (as this one is) of being the one meant to scratch the itch of all players from all previous editions. And...

You're saying that you're half of a two person IT department for a division of a multi-billion dollar, international corporation and if you were out for four months they wouldn't find a way to get done what you would normally do. Particularly if one of your tasks was to take care of something...

I find that to be more than enough to foster incredulity. They're a subsidiary of an international, multi-billion dollar corporation that lays off staff on a cyclical basis as a matter of course for their business plan that has no fallback position when their release schedule is crippled by the...

That's what I would call a fascinating level of transparency, if that was their explanation but they said someone is out of the office and no one is covering that aspect of his job. I suppose one might take it to imply what you have posted rather than that they have cut their staff to the bone...

Naw, that's looking for zebras when you hear hooves in Texas. Never suspect a conspiracy has brought you to a place when a combination of an incompetent guide, bad directions, and a lousy map can lead to the same destination.

I don't think we should jump to that conclusion. However, the number of alternative explanations can't be many. Certainly no one at WotC would think their customers would just nod their heads and not think this situation isn't ridiculous. It's like the confidence a youngster has when first...

They are reasonably priced. Now, if you blow one up for the wall it can get a bit pricey . . .