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<blockquote data-quote="Acmite" data-source="post: 808621" data-attributes="member: 183">We agree on most of this then.&nbsp; You said, &quot;Instead I will spend my money on d20 publishers who care about the hobby rather than milking the customer out of as much money as possible. D&amp;D will not die, the SRD can't be revoked, so I will spend my money with companies who do care&quot; and that's what got me going.I honestly think that a good chunk of R&amp;D likes what they're doing.&nbsp; I think they want to make a good game.&nbsp; Monte has suggested that some of them don't even play the game, but I'm thinking that they are the minority.&nbsp; Did it hurt to lose people like Monte and SKR (although neither of them were fired or laid-off)?&nbsp; Sure.Does that leave the talent pool dried up?&nbsp; I don't think so, but we won't know until we see more material made after they left--we're still seeing products that had their mark on it (Savage Species, Unapproachable East, Races of Faerun, etc).Wizards, the company, cares.&nbsp; But they have big wigs at Hasbro breathing down their necks--and I think it was that pressure that instigated everything that led up to the Bean Counter story.Some of the best products coming out now are from other d20 publishers (have you seen Mutants and Masterminds? Wow!) I agree, but Wizards still fills an important role in R&amp;D--a role I certainly wouldn't trust to some of the &quot;major&quot; third party publishers, like Mongoose for example.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Acmite, post: 808621, member: 183"] We agree on most of this then. You said, "Instead I will spend my money on d20 publishers who care about the hobby rather than milking the customer out of as much money as possible. D&D will not die, the SRD can't be revoked, so I will spend my money with companies who do care" and that's what got me going. I honestly think that a good chunk of R&D likes what they're doing. I think they want to make a good game. Monte has suggested that some of them don't even play the game, but I'm thinking that they are the minority. Did it hurt to lose people like Monte and SKR (although neither of them were fired or laid-off)? Sure. Does that leave the talent pool dried up? I don't think so, but we won't know until we see more material made after they left--we're still seeing products that had their mark on it (Savage Species, Unapproachable East, Races of Faerun, etc). Wizards, the company, cares. But they have big wigs at Hasbro breathing down their necks--and I think it was that pressure that instigated everything that led up to the Bean Counter story. Some of the best products coming out now are from other d20 publishers (have you seen Mutants and Masterminds? Wow!) I agree, but Wizards still fills an important role in R&D--a role I certainly wouldn't trust to some of the "major" third party publishers, like Mongoose for example. [/QUOTE]

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