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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Windjammer" data-source="post: 5687915" data-attributes="member: 60075">Well, this answers one of my nagging concerns  over the past months... IF they are actively working on 5E, who's at all  competent enough to do it? Certainly none of the few remaining staffers, who  also mostly lack street cred or - in the case of Cordell - spectacularly gambled it away.But the wording of the announcement leaves me a tad wary:"we've brought him on board to work with R&D in making D&D the greatest RPG the world has seen."Well, him being brought "on board" as opposed to getting hired as a full time staff member should be taken with an enormous grain of salt. Smacks of freelance contract, and of an underpaid one in light of that underwhelming Facebook entry shared earlier,You know what's instructive? Historical precedence, that is.I remember when it was announced that Cook would work on the Pathfinder  RPG. People were dancing, celebrating ultimate victory over 4E, and so  on on paizo.comAnd what did they get? A preface to the core rulebook with next to no  evidence that Monte did actual design work for them. He simply provided  'consultation'. I said it back then, I'll say it now. To all appearances, this is  primarily a marketing stunt, and little else besides. It'll be virtually  identical to what Monte did for Necromancer Games when Tome of Horrors II came out: he wrote the preface to a book he had ostensibly not read, let alone contributed to.Design consultant my a$$. Either bring him in with full development assignments, or forget it. And from the sound of the above fb tweet, WotC doesn't have the budget to do it proper. God do I hope to be wrong.</blockquote>

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