Is WoTC even relevant to you anymore?

[der_kluge]

Aside from a few miniatures, I can't even recall the last WoTC book I purchased. Really, I stopped caring about their crunch-heavy books a LONG time ago.

These days, I mostly track new releases from Necromancer games, and that's about all I care about anymore.

WoTC could just about go out of business and I think I'd hardly miss them at all.


Anyone else in the same boat?

 

[Jefe Bergenstein]

I'm sure you'll find plenty of WOTC haters on this board. Was this supposed to be a discussion, or a gathering of yes-men?

 

[Ed_Laprade]

Aside from a few miniatures, I can't even recall the last WoTC book I purchased. Really, I stopped caring about their crunch-heavy books a LONG time ago.

These days, I mostly track new releases from Necromancer games, and that's about all I care about anymore.

WoTC could just about go out of business and I think I'd hardly miss them at all.


Anyone else in the same boat?

My finances, or lack thereof, prevents me from buying anything. But if I could, I'd grab one or two of the spell compilations and that'd be it. There have been several times that I would have been well pleased if TSR/WoTC went under. Now is one of them.

 

[Scribble]

I still buy WOTC stuff.

 

[HellHound]

Still very relevant to me, and I don't even play D&D anymore.
I quit playing almost a year ago - but WotC remains the biggest mover and shaker in the industry, so I DEFINITELY keep track of what's going on over there. And the books aren't all crunch-heavy - but I'm glad they aren't crunchless.

WotC is a primary indicator of the health of the industry as a whole. So I would definitely care if they went under.

 

[Charwoman Gene]

Sure, The shape of their upcoming rules crunch really aligns with my gaming direction at the moment.

The network effect of playing in the mainstream I find is better than the muttering in the dark I find when outside the main sequence.

 

[Arnwyn]

I pretty much only buy WotC stuff (adventures, FR stuff, and the 'monster ecology' books), Necromancer Games (should they actually decide to widely release anything these days - hint: if you don't appear on Amazon.ca, you're not relevant), and Paizo's adventures.

That's it. So WotC is "somewhat relevant", as long as they release adventures and FR books. They drop off my radar should they stop doing that.

 

[HellHound]

The network effect of playing in the mainstream I find is better than the muttering in the dark I find when outside the main sequence.

Yeah, I'm VERY glad that I have a group of players who will play whatever I run, so I don't have that issue for gaming. Although I did enjoy the feedback from publicly talking about my D&D games compared the the dead air my discussions about my CyberPunk games fall into.

 

[Keeper of Secrets]

The WotC stuff I have bought recently has been impressive. In the past couple of years I bought Libris Mortis, Lords of Madness, and Drow of the Underdark and have been really impressed. Further, I hear Monster Manual V is really good.

I'm not sure what is with all the WotC hate.

 

[Bacris]

I don't tend to buy much from WotC, although I have picked up a few things here and there - but my main gaming group is huge on WotC-only in their games... Thankfully, my DMs let me use anything I publish under my own label