Is WoTC even relevant to you anymore?

[grodog]

The last time I bought a WotC product was, umm, never. Although I did recently come across a copy of The Primal Order in the used section at the FLGS and briefly considered picking it up as a historical curiosity...

Buy it Trent, TPO is a great set of books!

 

[PapersAndPaychecks]

I'm with Trent. I've never purchased a WOTC product either.

WOTC have never been relevant to me, and they're getting less relevant all the time.

 

[Shortman McLeod]

Yeah, well... they do that for me too.

(You try running 3 campaigns - two on fortnightly schedules and one weekly... that's what I'm currently doing. )

Cheers!

You try having a wife and kids, doode! Family trumps running D&D for making life busy.

 

[Maggan]

WOTC have never been relevant to me, and they're getting less relevant all the time.

Even though you used the OGL as a ways to create OSRIC? To me that would seem pretty relevant.

/M

 

[The Cardinal]

D&D/d20 related interests:

Goodman Games' DCCs, their Wilderlands adventures and their Áereth setting

Necromancer and Judges Guild (Wilderlands) stuff

C&C


...that's it.

 

[Aus_Snow]

(c) Villian Classes. Things to make the creation of mid- or high-level NPCs easier.

Hm. Villain Classes, you say?

Most (if not all, in fact) of the other points you raise are addressed, well and truly, by 3rd party publishers. But I have a sneaking suspicion you already know this.

 

[Baby Samurai]

The best move WotC has pulled in a long time is Star Wars: Saga Edition, this has rejuvenated my current D&D campaign.

My group has ported over many of the changes and the feel is just amazing.

 

[Raven Crowking]

Hm. Villain Classes, you say?

Most (if not all, in fact) of the other points you raise are addressed, well and truly, by 3rd party publishers. But I have a sneaking suspicion you already know this.

Oh, I do. But there are a lot of options out there, and some official material along this vein wouldn't go amiss. For one thing, if you want to use official monsters that aren't in the SRD for your home game, you are either lugging a lot of books to the table or you are spending too much time writing out stat blocks. Or, at least I am, even though I save every stat block in a file so I can cut & paste. It makes me far less interested in new monsters when I know that they are going to increase my workload, unless there is a hell of a lot of "cool" factor involved.

Advanced Bestiary and Tome of Horrors right now have the best "cool" factor, plus the quickplates from Monsternomicon.

A pdf product of WotC official statblocks (no art, no added info, thus not replacing original sources, OGC in red for easy reference) related to traps, monsters, and hazards would be worth plonking down hardcover-price money for. Just saying. And, if it listed sources, might make me interested in looking up the full information (i.e., investing in more hardcovers).

Thanks for the link, btw.

RC

 

[dmccoy1693]

Happens to me all the time LOL.

My first (and currently, only) work I completed, I felt a little overwhelmed so I asked a friend (who just happens to be my DM) to help me write it. He turned out to be a better playtester/editor then writer, but still very helpful. From it, I've gained the confidence to write solo, but because he knows how I write, he allows anything I write in his game as long as it gets published (and he's a WotC-only guy).

 

[jaerdaph]

WotC is no longer "relevant" to me because I do not play D&D and d20 Modern is apparently defunct. While I still play d20 Modern and purchase third party d20 Modern products, I also play True20 more and more. I'm also interested in playing other non-WotC RPGs on the horizon like Colonial Gothic and Witch Hunter.

But do not confuse relevance with hate. I certainly do not "hate" WotC because I've gotten a lot of enjoyment out of their products over the years, and continue to enjoy those products even now.