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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Beginning of the End" data-source="post: 5298190" data-attributes="member: 55271">By strongly disagreeing with that, you're strongly agreeing that TSR should have gone bankrupt. Because the one is very closely related to the other.I'm going to take an educated guess here and say that you're currently 32 years old. Why? Because that would have made you 12 in 1990. The personal golden age for anything tends to be 12 years old.You're contradicting yourself. TSR was even more draconian with its licensing and managed to produce your personal golden age all by itself.I also agree that quality was a problem. But I disagree with the verdict that no classics were produced. Off the top of my head: Dragon Mountain. Night Below. Return to the Tomb of Horrors. Gates of Firestorm Peak. A Paladin in Hell. Dark Sun. Al-Qadim. Planescape. With all of that being said: I think it's almost certain that WotC did over-react in attempting to correct the course of TSR's misguided ship. Some of these over-reactions (like their decision to largely abandon adventure modules) have been more or less corrected. Others seem to be deepening (like the decision to significantly decrease the depth of support for pre-designed campaign worlds), although that may be in response to their ongoing market analysis.I understand WotC's desire to sell every product they produce to every single person playing the game. But while that was an attitude that was tolerable when they allowed third party publishers to fill the less prominent niches, it means that interests aren't being served and sales are being left on the table now that WotC has largely pulled everything back in-house. It's as if there were only one company making movies, and they insisted that every single movie appealed equally to all demographics. So instead of a nice mix of romances, comedies, and action films, everything needs to be romance-comedy-action film.</blockquote>

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