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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Scrivener of Doom" data-source="post: 6297246" data-attributes="member: 87576">Hmmm, it's a couple of years at least since the last one. And Mike can always be replaced. Bill Slavicsek was, and Bill held a much more senior position.I've observed many US corporates over many years - as others have, no doubt - and the major thing I have learned is that strategies change. Frequently. Back during my days in banking I had a firm rule that I have never broke: never work for a US bank. Why? Because you can be a key part of their strategy one day only for that strategy - not tactics: strategy - to suddenly change the next day and suddenly you are surplus to their requirements.Sure, WotC people are saying that they have this new strategy and they're not competing with Pathfinder etc... (or "blah, blah, blah" rather than etc) but none of that matters. Strategies change. People change. And the WotC team have not yet demonstrated an ability to deliver on a strategy that is completely new to them. Even something as relatively simple as the online tools was utterly botched with numerous false starts and whatnot: if they cannot manage the online tools then what hope do they have of managing a comprehensive change in their business strategy?Let's assume that this D&D-the-brand strategy is either delayed or botched - or both - and the pressure will then be on to squeeze some more out of the RPG. And what has worked in the past? Splat books. Overload. Bloat. And this time the edition has been created from the beginning to almost need those extra products - like the tactical combat module - if people want to recreate something of the experience of 3.xE, Pathfinder, or 4E.Anyway, this is all academic because we don't have any real data to play with. Next has not yet been released. The movie rights have not yet reverted to Hasbro. None of the new initiatives have appeared on the market (except for that fake Hasbro version of Lego). For all I know, I could be very wrong and D&D could become a veritable gold mine for Hasbro in the next year or so.And I hope it does because I still want access to my 4E online tools. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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