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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 7244983" data-attributes="member: 7006">I believe Cook left because the full-time contract that WotC would have had him sign would include the policy that any design work that Cook came up with during that time would be owned by WotC, even if it wasn't directly related to D&amp;D.&nbsp; Cook obviously had an issue with that, which is why he didn't sign on to become a full-time employee and left to form his own company (where he created the game he probably was thinking of while working at WotC and which he obviously didn't want to give over.)As far as Cordell is concerned... many full-time WotC employees of the D&amp;D department tended to get laid off following the release of a new edition, presumably because they had worked there long enough that they had larger contracts that just were not able to be sustained by the budget of the department.&nbsp; The &quot;purge&quot; of the D&amp;D department was a well-known phenomena that happened several times.&nbsp; However, this time leading out of 5E a trio of long-time employees all voluntarily left, rather than get laid off.&nbsp; James Wyatt moved over to the Magic: The Gathering department, Rodney Thompson left to join a video game company (Bungie?) and Bruce Cordell left to join his old friend Monte Cook and work for MCG.&nbsp; This made the departmental purge of long-time employees unnecessary.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 7244983, member: 7006"] I believe Cook left because the full-time contract that WotC would have had him sign would include the policy that any design work that Cook came up with during that time would be owned by WotC, even if it wasn't directly related to D&D. Cook obviously had an issue with that, which is why he didn't sign on to become a full-time employee and left to form his own company (where he created the game he probably was thinking of while working at WotC and which he obviously didn't want to give over.) As far as Cordell is concerned... many full-time WotC employees of the D&D department tended to get laid off following the release of a new edition, presumably because they had worked there long enough that they had larger contracts that just were not able to be sustained by the budget of the department. The "purge" of the D&D department was a well-known phenomena that happened several times. However, this time leading out of 5E a trio of long-time employees all voluntarily left, rather than get laid off. James Wyatt moved over to the Magic: The Gathering department, Rodney Thompson left to join a video game company (Bungie?) and Bruce Cordell left to join his old friend Monte Cook and work for MCG. This made the departmental purge of long-time employees unnecessary. [/QUOTE]

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