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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Maldin" data-source="post: 4765728" data-attributes="member: 27170">Thanks for dropping in, Scott! Any good boss doesn't like to discuss internal matters publicly until the time is right, particulary with the state of flux that the DDI has been in, but any chance people will start seeing responses (positive or negative) to submissions? What is your take (or that of your appropriate division man-on-the-scene) on what the future will bring?Regarding the list of authors, as both Aberzanzorax and Shemy say, a large part of the diversity is probably pre-4E slush pile, but even having said that, I recognized a HUGE percentage of those names as being from several different groups... Wizards staff designers, RPGA HQ personnel (or former personnel), the group of regular freelancers, and a group of authors who I know were green-lighted slush pile articles from earlier.ROFL!! Thanks for the vote, Aberzanzorax.Scott is a pretty busy guy, and I know we're all very pleased that , unlike some of his predecessors, he is concerned enough with his customers to appear here on Enworld with what I think is outstanding frequency. (Thanks Scott! And I really do mean it.) I'm sure he doesn't have much time to surf the hundreds of fan sites out there, and I would expect that he hadn't seen my site. Erik, I know, is an equally busy guy (yes, a smaller company, but that means you have fewer people doing stuff for you!), and I'd say the same. Except that Erik has published some of my work, we've co-authored several articles together, was his fact-checker/reviewer for the Living Greyhawk Gazetteer, and he's even posted links to my website on his blog. So I know he's definitely seen it.Erik is a bit modest, but he once was just one of us fans with a website (even if he prefers to forget what his site once was like <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devil.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":devil:" title="Devil    :devil:" data-shortname=":devil:" /> , some of us do remember!), and has always remembered those roots. Although Paizo no longer has a periodical that could accept submissions like they did when they produced Dragon and Dungeon (and what Dragon and Dungeon had always done for those decades before), he's gone out of his way to encourage new talent by launching the RPG Rockstar competitions.No decision is "forever". I really do hope that Wizards someday gets back to those days where fans could participate in the creation of D&D materials, and become that "new talent on the scene", even if it means fewer articles by the "pros". I think the long-term benefit justifies it. Besides, going digital means that you can easily add additional pages to the product for far less expense (and headache) then increasing the size of a print product.Denis, aka "Maldin"Maldin's Greyhawk <a href="http://melkot.com" target="_blank">http://melkot.com</a>A very cool place.</blockquote>

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