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Is WOTC/Hasbro mismanaging D&D?
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<blockquote data-quote="ced1106" data-source="post: 369558" data-attributes="member: 7551"><p>Well, as I said, there's wheat in the chaff. The CM and Immortal series of modules, Fiend Folio, MM2, Dieties and Demigods (hardcover statbooks), Unearthed Arcana, Battlesystem, Hollow World and other forgotten campaign settings, retail store D&D introductory adventure games, Creature Compendium, and Chainmail were greeted, IIRC, by the AD&D audience with a resounding thud. (I sure liked the FF, though!)</p><p></p><p>Anyway, back to mismanagement. Apologies if anyone already said it (and what I'm misremembering), but two pre-Hasbro management errors come to mind:</p><p></p><p>* TSR almost went bankrupt with Dragon Dice and the D&D novels. DD was expensive to produce, and the novels were returnable. Producing (and not selling) both resulted in cash flow (?) problems which almost put the company out of business. </p><p></p><p>* Pre-Hasbro, WotC "cooked the books" to make the company seem more profitable than it really was. GamingReport.com would have more info on that.</p><p></p><p>Given that Hasbro hasn't bankrupted WotC (indeed, in the company I used to work for, the parent company was instrumental in its demise), I'll pick the lesser of two evils and say that Hasbro / WotC is the better manager. (I'm not sure how smart it is to sell of a house organ. After all, anything Dungeon or Dragon publishes will reflect on WotC. Has anyone heard any comments about #300? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt="(:" title="Smile (:" data-smilie="1"data-shortname="(:" /></p><p></p><p>And, finally, as an alternative to the MM, EnWorld does have its Creature Catalog. I must admit it's a little dry without the artwork, but the variety and price can't be beat. The site even has a "How to Create a Monster" download you can use if your favorite monster is missing. Great job!!!</p><p></p><p>Creature Catalog</p><p><a href="http://www.enworld.org/cc/default.asp" target="_blank">http://www.enworld.org/cc/default.asp</a></p><p></p><p></p><p>Cedric.</p><p>aka. Washu! ^O^</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ced1106, post: 369558, member: 7551"] Well, as I said, there's wheat in the chaff. The CM and Immortal series of modules, Fiend Folio, MM2, Dieties and Demigods (hardcover statbooks), Unearthed Arcana, Battlesystem, Hollow World and other forgotten campaign settings, retail store D&D introductory adventure games, Creature Compendium, and Chainmail were greeted, IIRC, by the AD&D audience with a resounding thud. (I sure liked the FF, though!) Anyway, back to mismanagement. Apologies if anyone already said it (and what I'm misremembering), but two pre-Hasbro management errors come to mind: * TSR almost went bankrupt with Dragon Dice and the D&D novels. DD was expensive to produce, and the novels were returnable. Producing (and not selling) both resulted in cash flow (?) problems which almost put the company out of business. * Pre-Hasbro, WotC "cooked the books" to make the company seem more profitable than it really was. GamingReport.com would have more info on that. Given that Hasbro hasn't bankrupted WotC (indeed, in the company I used to work for, the parent company was instrumental in its demise), I'll pick the lesser of two evils and say that Hasbro / WotC is the better manager. (I'm not sure how smart it is to sell of a house organ. After all, anything Dungeon or Dragon publishes will reflect on WotC. Has anyone heard any comments about #300? (: And, finally, as an alternative to the MM, EnWorld does have its Creature Catalog. I must admit it's a little dry without the artwork, but the variety and price can't be beat. The site even has a "How to Create a Monster" download you can use if your favorite monster is missing. Great job!!! Creature Catalog [url]http://www.enworld.org/cc/default.asp[/url] Cedric. aka. Washu! ^O^ [/QUOTE]
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