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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9288031" data-attributes="member: 18">Absolutely!I am still mad from when they killed off Liera, who I think even most FR DMs often forgot existed, and even more annoyed about them killing off Mask, though both seem to be back in 5E. And I'm not even a huge FR fan!I think the 3D VTT, with its 250 employees, indicating a wildly outsized investment compared to D&D generally, is basically the project that WotC intends to do that to D&D, and turn it from this weakly-monetized deal where you have to keep printing large amounts of new books, and selling them at a tiny mark-up compared to MtG cards or the like, into a digital-focused subscription and MTX-driven powerhouse.I mean, could there be a more clear statement of intent than hiring a guy from Microsoft who has zero experience with any kind of games, but whose main CV item is that he successfully lead campaigns to convert MS customers from purchasing actual individual products, to subscribing to digital services, and putting this guy in charge of D&D, whilst removing the previous guy, who had significant corporate and RPG dev/design experience (and under whom, D&D had been doing great!)?I don't think there could be.That shouldn't be read as "DOOOOOOOOOOM!", because personally, I think the 3D VTT is going to be an absolute flop relative to the investment, and I don't think the D&D playerbase will be "converted to digital subscribers", for the most part. But the intent seems very clear. It's not like D&D was doing badly under Ray Winninger. Quite the opposite. So replacing him with "Mr Subscription" is quite significant. Worth noting too that, unless I'm very mistaken, all the major mistakes WotC has made with D&D have been on Mr Subscription's watch, too.</blockquote>

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