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<blockquote data-quote="Sacrosanct" data-source="post: 9648986" data-attributes="member: 15700">The books were an accident. The success didn't start with Dragonlance, it actually started with the Endless Quest Books. Rose Estes pitched the idea, management was against it, and finally told her, &quot;Fine, if you want, but do it on your own time.&quot; So she did.They were a huge success. Then management decided to go all in with novels, but screwed up again by not compensating the talent and letting them walk (Weiss and Hickman) or putting unrealistic demands on them (Bob Salvatore) or way over-producing what the market wanted.Basically, the success was because of right place and right time and in spite of themselves, and all the bad things were because of decisions by management.&nbsp; So no, I don't consider that a positive of management. You don't get credit for the success of something you initially tried to stop in the first place, then screwed the talent that got you there in spite of yourselves.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Sacrosanct, post: 9648986, member: 15700"] The books were an accident. The success didn't start with Dragonlance, it actually started with the Endless Quest Books. Rose Estes pitched the idea, management was against it, and finally told her, "Fine, if you want, but do it on your own time." So she did. They were a huge success. Then management decided to go all in with novels, but screwed up [I]again [/I]by not compensating the talent and letting them walk (Weiss and Hickman) or putting unrealistic demands on them (Bob Salvatore) or way over-producing what the market wanted. Basically, the success was because of right place and right time and in spite of themselves, and all the bad things were because of decisions by management. So no, I don't consider that a positive of management. You don't get credit for the success of something you initially tried to stop in the first place, then screwed the talent that got you there in spite of yourselves. [/QUOTE]

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