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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Primal" data-source="post: 4724611" data-attributes="member: 30678">I can understand your point there, Ari, because like you said, it's a bit different for freelancers (i.e. you're only paid on basis of word count). However, if you're a designer or author on a regular payroll, I think it's part of the job. In my job, I need to read a lot of books which are "required reading" (I'm a librarian), and let me tell you that I couldn't care less about most of them. It's also expected that I keep up with what's happening in the publishing industry, and all-too-many websites related to literature and libraries. It's all part of my job description. If I get to read (every once in a while) something that I actually *like*, it feels great. In an ideal world, I could just concentrate on reading fantasy and science fiction and RPGs, and concentrate only on them in collection development. Yet this is what I chose to do for a living, so I'm not complaining.If the full-time designers are really that busy, to me it implies that something should be done; whether they need more staff or simply some adjustments to schedules/how things are done, I don't know. Just let me ask something: will Eberron be "rebooted" as well as soon as the current authors are no longer writing for it, so that the "new crowd" won't have to read 50+ accessories plus novels just to get the facts right? And is it really the best way to handle things? I mean, there are pretty good Wikis out there, and maybe WoTC could co-operate with the fans in updating them, so that freelancers and staffers would always find up-to-date information quickly?</blockquote>

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