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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Brix" data-source="post: 4768240" data-attributes="member: 4576">...And thanks to Brix, too, for getting the ball rolling. if possible I'd love a bit more details; any chance of a transcript? Or some more detailed thoughts.  As the person on the other end of the phone, what was YOUR take on the conversation?...</blockquote>Since I'm not a native speaker and haven't talked much English recently, my approach was to collect my own complains about WotC in a paper I sent to Greg and try to find solutions I would appreciate. In addition I asked the community to do so in a couple of threads. Then I pointed Greg to these threads in my paper as well. I did this to establish common ground, and to make sure that he gets my point and that no misunderstandings occur through bad use of English.So most of the 15 minutes he spoke and basically gave the information I already provided. I had three opportunities to speak. 1st: After he referred to the success of 4E I specifically asked him if WotC is not concerned about the growing success of his competitor Paizo, and if they don't want to earn the money Paizo gets from people who turned away after the advent of 4E, which led to the answer that WotC is fine with the fact that people support Paizo, as long as they continue to play roleplaying games, which benefits the whole industry.2nd: He asked me, why I don't like D&DI. I said that there is no content for me (since I don't like 4E-rules, 4E-FR). I also said, that imo D&D is a pen&paper game that is played with friends at the table and only in rare circumstances over the internet. While I think that computers can help to organize your roleplaying experience i think that there are (free) tools available that work better than the current iteration of the  D&DI tools. 3rd: I was sqeaking with joy after he said that amongst my many suggestion they will shoot out pre-Spellplague FR material. Although no details were given. In my original paper I suggested that they already paid for that stuff (tons of material from Ed Greenwood and others) so why don't sell it? It also suggested to make it like Paizo, e.g. regional books with no or very light stats (like LE Fighter 6) and mostly fluff - for decent prices. We'll see[/QUOTE]

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