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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 5891245" data-attributes="member: 14159">Well, from his livejournal post, all Monte would say is that he had no complaint with his fellow designers, his disagreement was with the corporate end of things, and that between NDA's and wanting to avoid drama, he would not say anything more.Beyond that, it's speculation.  I can say that Monte Cook leaving WotC, apparently in some kind of disagreement with the company, makes me worried about 5e and the direction it is taking (such as a design mandate coming down from Corporate that Mr. Cook didn't like, or further codification of the "edition treadmill" like saying that 5e/D&D Next would be the edition for "X" years and they were already planning 6e at the same time).I trust Monte Cook as a game designer, and I do wonder if WotC realizes that game designers are not just interchangable hacks that they can easily replace.  It reminds me a little of a story I heard with production of The Simpsons: I remember reading that in the late '90's FOX threatened to fire all the voice actors when their contracts came up for renewal and replace them with inexperienced actors who would demand far less money on the grounds that the "suits" thought that nobody would know the difference.As for designers creating a new fantasy RPG away from WotC, I would wish them well, but at this point I think that the D&D name itself goes a long way to selling the game (but not all the way, as the edition wars showed), and a non-D&D fantasy RPG that was D&Desque has been done countless times in gaming history.  Good luck with it, but I am skeptical.</blockquote>

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