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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BlackMoria" data-source="post: 261918" data-attributes="member: 424">What is truly going in the ivory towers of WOTC?We are told repeatly that the relaunch of D&D was successful beyond imagination....Yet, in the two years since the release of 3E, the RPG division has taken major hits in cutbacks - something you don't do if your successful beyond imagination.Illuminaries such as Steven Schend, Eric Boyd, Monte Cook, Sean Reynolds and Jim Butler, to name a few, have left or been let go.Monte Cook and Sean Reynolds have hinted in some discussions that all is NOT well in D&D land - and that the problem seems to be at the decision making level.The magazine division was sold off, despite being told that subscriptions in all mags like Dragon and Dungeon were up.  Polyhedron mag got rolled into Dragon - almost like it couldn't stand on its own.Star Wars Gamer was cancelled - again, despite the fact that we are told that Star Wars D20 is profitable.Sean Reynolds has made allegory that the future of Forgotten Realms products may be at stake.Chainmail was out less than a year and is now cancelled.And WOTC is prepared to pay 100,000 for 100 pages to define a new campaign setting - - too good to be true .... or desperation?Put this all together and I don't like the ramifications.  I think we are being hoodwinked by the RPG sales are exceeding expectations party line and that we are to believe that D&D is doing well.  The above signs are not the signs of a healthy RPG division.  They are signs of a company in trouble and looking for the means to stop the ship from going down.I have visions of corporate suits running in dizzying circles and screaming that 'the Sky is falling, the Sky is falling'.I may be wrong, but all these things combined tell me something is wrong and we are not being told the truth of what is really happening.Birthing pains of the relaunch of D&D.....Corporate Restructuring...... or Conspiracy?   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused    :confused:"  data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" /> Comments?</blockquote>

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