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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SSquirrel" data-source="post: 5688440" data-attributes="member: 5202">Funny, I took his FB post to just be his usual self-effacing humor and him trying not to make too big a deal out of it.  "Brought on board" is a general euphemism for hired and indicates nothing particular about pay level or about if it is contract or otherwise.  Monte was pretty straight when he said the Paizo deal w/a consultancy.  This sounds like a real, full-time job. *shrug*  3E looks like it did b/c Monte, Skip and Jonathan were given very specific guidelines of what sacred cows could and could not be slaughtered and there was a very careful balance being maintained w/all their decisions.  There were comments after the fact that there was a felling of "not having gone far enough", so I don't' know that I would agree the next edition of D&D will look more like 3E than 4E.  Personally I'd rather see the game keep moving forward.  Say what you will about the Time of Troubles and the SpellPlague, they were certainly huge change-inducing events to the Realms.  Whether those changes were for the better is another debate, but I'd rather see forward movement than stagnation or constantly dipping into the past.  I understand people's desires for old campaign worlds to come back in new editions, heck I was very vocal in wanting Dark Sun to come back to 4E and it was very nice, minus the whole complete lack of maps bit heh.  The last new campaign setting we had for D&D before Eberron was what....something in the Red Steel/Birthright/Planescape era*?  In over 15 years D&D has had one new major world, after creating so many in 2E.  I won't go so far as to agree w/Barney from How I Met Your Mother that "new is always better", but new is certainly different.  Different can be scary, but it can also be a lot of fun.  I can't fathom Monte sitting around yelling at kids to get off his D&D lawn, complaining that in his day they didn't' have healing surges, etc.  He's shown he can design more than one thing, so we won't just get a re-tread of the past.</blockquote>

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