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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LightPhoenix" data-source="post: 259434" data-attributes="member: 115">For one thing, I think we can drop the innuendo, as cute as it is.  Let's just call it what it is.Second, this really, really saddens me.  In another thread, someone asked me if I needed the WotC seal on my products.  Things like this make me say no, and support third party publishers all the way.Third, I think that everyone can do more with the crunchy bits than the fluffy bits.  That isn't to say the fluffy bits are bad, but for people who run their own campaigns, buying a book like Lords of Darkness or Silver Marches isn't really adding much useful to their campaign, whereas buyings something like the FRCS or Magic of Faerun is.At the very best, it's a books of ideas.  Now, I don't know about other people, but I've gotten lots of ideas just looking at the crunchy bits and saying, "Ooh, I know how I could work that in, and have a neat story!".  On the other hand, flipping through Lords of Darkness at the store, I was getting that reaction much less.I think this just all points toward Hasbro's waning interest in both D&D and WotC.  First the sale of the retail stores, then the periodicals, and now this... how long before they sell off the entire thing?[EDIT] Because I KNOW people are going to get the wrong idea... no, I don't support this.  I may not like the Realms, but that doesn't mean I want the thing to die.  If people like the campaign, more reason to keep producing it.  I'm just trying to produce a reasoning for why the higher-ups are saying what they're saying, and why the crunchy books sell more.</blockquote>

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