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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 2759028" data-attributes="member: 14159">I'll second that.  Unless they are dumping D&D outright or having a major restructuring of how they work, they really can't do without a D&D Brand Manager, so cutting Charles Ryan in favor of a more junior replacement could be a purely cost-saving move.  It's mercenary and cold, but it's something a very cutthroat large corporation like Hasbro would do.It's been WotC's style if you look back, to fire longtime employees (who go on to success in the d20 market) and bring in newer, presumably cheaper, employees.  How many Brand Managers has WotC gone through since 3e, isn't Ryan the 3rd in 5 years?  How often has WotC announced layoffs?This I'll also agree with.  All the "grim future of gaming" threads seem to quickly polarize into two sides, one which sees things as brighter than ever, once that sees everything in shambles, and I think this is why.  A consumer of RPG's has a huge variety of games to choose from, with loads of settings, high production values and an abundance of suppliments.  It's easier to use minis in your game than ever before, and the internet makes finding new gamers and discussing your games far easier.  Things on the other end of things are feeling the crunch from a slow economy, the burst of the "d20 bubble", and a market that is very dominated by D&D.  No matter how good it gets, people will complain it could be better, and no matter how bad it gets there will always been some hopeful gamer who will stake it all on a start-up company to make some games and hope to break even at it all.</blockquote>

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