rpg designer opening at wizards

[Pants]

The Manual of the Planes strikes me as one of the books that will be affected the least by the revision. Most of the book is fluff.

 

[Gargoyle]

It's a 4.0 ranger in a 3.5 world?

That's almost it, IMO. Actually, it's more like the 3.0 ranger was a 2.5 ranger and they brought it up to 3.5.

 

[mattcolville]

WotC laid off all those people because ... err ... they were professionals and would have quit anyway because WotC magerment appears to be like TSR?

I rather work for White Wolf that WotC/Hasbro ...

No you wouldn't.

 

[Arcane Runes Press]

No you wouldn't.

But Matt, the White Wolf guys have really cool shirts for their bowling team!

Patrick Y.

 

[Sanackranib]

3.5

for me its not that some conversion will have to be done for 3.5 but that it needs to be done at all. yes I agree that changes need to be made but I feel like I have had to pay to "betatest" 3e and now I have to pay again to upgrade to 3.5e beta version 2
its all about money and we all know it or everything changewise would be available as a free downloadable .pdf, then if you WANTED to pony up for a HC version you could after all printing the material is MUCH more expensive then just generating a .pdf file, and those costs will always be passed allong.

 

[Alzrius]

But the changes will be freely available via the SRD. Once that's done, its obvious that other people will simply list them all again at one single point. Then you can just cut and paste it into a document yourself, and make that a PDF. What could be simpler?

 

[seankreynolds]

And remenber that WotC fired people to imediatly hire then for freelancer work ...

Not true. In fact, it is illegal to do so (because of Microsoft doing that very thing so they could have contractors without paying benefits, and a judge ruled against them).

 

[Kweezil]

Re: 3.5

for me its not that some conversion will have to be done for 3.5 but that it needs to be done at all. yes I agree that changes need to be made but I feel like I have had to pay to "betatest" 3e and now I have to pay again to upgrade to 3.5e beta version 2
its all about money and we all know it or everything changewise would be available as a free downloadable .pdf, then if you WANTED to pony up for a HC version you could after all printing the material is MUCH more expensive then just generating a .pdf file, and those costs will always be passed allong.

Ahem. SRD. Read it, see it you like it, etc.

 

[Nikchick]

Not true. In fact, it is illegal to do so (because of Microsoft doing that very thing so they could have contractors without paying benefits, and a judge ruled against them).

You're only half right, Sean. You're right that because of the Microsoft case, if WotC wanted to hire their recently laid off staff as freelancers, doing the same jobs, they had to wait 3 months to do so. (Microsoft had this bad habit of having people working as "temps" without benefits and so on for 5 years or more at a time. Now those "temps" have a manditory 90 or 100 day hiatus, and *then* they're hired back, if they still want the gig.)

Anyway, WotC did turn around and hire many of the people they'd laid off back as freelancers doing *other* jobs (former editors hired to write novels, or former designers hired to do some administrative temp jobs, or former administrative assistants hired to do design...) right away. They hired back people to do essentially the same jobs they were doing before, only as temps, without titles ("Oh no, he's not art directing... he's, um, creative consulting, yeah, that's it, creative consulting.")

Nicole