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Message: <blockquote data-quote="bowbe" data-source="post: 3469556" data-attributes="member: 6328">Every Bad Idea has its DayI would dare to guess that every bad idea that has come out of WOTC has had its roots in WOTC and not with its rather large, well known and much maligned master. Its my understanding that Hasbro doesn't really take any more money out of the % profit  and operating costs that WOTC makes than did Peter Adkison and his partners did when they held the reigns to the company.What Hasbro did for WOTC was create the venue/ability to produce cheap chinese miniatures at a cheap Hasbro run chinese factory.They also opened up Hasbro's very real and very wide market.  Likewise I would guess that most of the various firings/removals/resignations of various wildly popular developers and contributors at WOTC had a lot more to do with "creative differences" with the one or two constants involved in the D&D line at WOTC since the start of 3ed. Figure that one out rather than assuming a "suit at hasbro" made a mandate and you'll probably be closer to the source of this most recent blow to yet another iconic piece of FRPG literature. Removing a zero sum loss loss leader and ultimately free (to WOTC) advertisement on the magazine rack and forcing folks to a non collectible non print "online" content is yet another of those "Bad Ideas". My largest dissapointment in this is that to be honest one of my favorite things about Dungeon and Dragon for years has been the advertisements. As a kid I probably learned more about painting miniatures from the adds for fledgling Games Workshop ads. I learned about Reaper from the adds. I learned about Call of Cthulhu and the old West End James Bond from the adds. Regardless. I already know other great things will come out of this. That said I wouldn't want to be working the WOTC booth this year at Gen Con. Especially if they announce 4e Hahaha.</blockquote>

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