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Message: <blockquote data-quote="PlatinumWarlock" data-source="post: 4390971" data-attributes="member: 68691">Difficult question, but one worth asking.  (Voted "4", by the way) As a company, I feel that WotC tends to want to do everything possible with the D&D brand, and get sidetracked as they do it, which tends towards hit or miss production.   A constant stream of books--what, 3-5 products per month, every month!--is a lot to ask of any gaming company, and the WotC product line has been consistently solid throughout their run on D&D.  Yes, some books were better than others, but we regularly get full color, hardback books, with generally balanced quality rules...not toob ad. While I was really pleased with the result of 4e, the secrecy surrounding its original announcement really torked me off...luckily, I was able to donate most of my 3.5e books to my college's library, so that other gamers could use them. Moving Dungeon and Dragon online originally seemed like a good idea to me, as I do spend a lot of time online, but without a quality printer, I can't print out any of the articles--particularly the adventures.  That said, the frequency of the articles has definitively gone down, which leads me to believe that the online initiative is even more off-schedule than they may be letting on.  Same can be said for GleeMax. All said, though, I feel like the D&D brand team are a bunch of guys who really love D&D.  They put up with a ton of crap that people in no other industry deal with.   I think about something that Mike Mearls did at Origins this year--on the opening day, Wednesday, the 4e game I was in was overbooked--we had at least 5 people trying to buy in on generics.  He arrived to chat briefly with the Amorphous Blob Games people, and saw the predicament....and just sat down and threw together a game like it was nothing.  On a day that he was undeniably busy--he was a Guest of Honor this year--and could have been doing any number of other things, he chose to run game for people that he owed nothing to.  That speaks of good character to me, and if WotC has people like him on board, I know they can't be the "heartless corporation" so many people insinuate.</blockquote>

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