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Message: <blockquote data-quote="trancejeremy" data-source="post: 5806635" data-attributes="member: 924">Even though I liked 3.0, I really only bought maybe half a dozen WOTC products besides the core books.The quality was largely terrible outside the rulebooks. Poorly edited, horribly printed (all the art was shades of purple), and often not that great rules wise (at least their early splatbooks). And their adventures kind of stunk.They need to show they can deliver quality products, on par with what Paizo puts out. WOTC put out products that basically were slightly better than Mongoose (which isn't a compliment).The thing is, there were other problems at TSR at the time which seem to be had more problems relating to the bankruptcy.For instance, the money thrown at competing systems - Buck Rogers, Amazing Engine, and Alternity, the whole dungeon dice thing (an attempt to cash in on the CCG craze, only with dice, which was a big failure), all the book returns.While I definitely think there was setting bloat, and some of the settings were poorly run (The Birthright setting probably could have been set in an existing setting with some tweaks, and the Player's domain guides were probably a money sink since there were so many low priced SKUs) 2e did last a good 10 years. And the quality issue also raised its head - the sourcebooks they put out where really awful in terms of production values and playtesting. I'm not saying that model would have worked forever, but it did last longer than 3.0 or 3.5 or 4.0...</blockquote>

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