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<blockquote data-quote="Jester David" data-source="post: 6644370" data-attributes="member: 37579">And I'd like a diamond pony. One that vomits treasure. But, seriously, who's going to write all this stuff? WotC is down to two actual staff writers of content, both rules guys. And some contractors. They cut their editors and lost some people. I'm sure the D&amp;D team would love to put out more stuff but the management seems uninterested in staffing that division. As has been mentioned many times before, apart from 4e, no other edition of D&amp;D has had a campaign setting product released less than a year after the Core rulebooks. Because they are a LOT of work and cannot be written overnight. Why should we expect this D&amp;D team - smaller than any prior team - to be able to produce a book faster? Until November, they were hard at work on the DMG and it takes a least a month for a finished book to be printed and another month (at least) just to do layout. Are you really expecting them to crank out a 320-page campaign setting from scratch in just six months?! Even TSR apparently gave five months for a 160-page boxed set.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jester David, post: 6644370, member: 37579"] And I'd like a diamond pony. One that vomits treasure. But, seriously, who's going to write all this stuff? WotC is down to two actual staff writers of content, both rules guys. And some contractors. They cut their editors and lost some people. I'm sure the D&D team would love to put out more stuff but the management seems uninterested in staffing that division. As has been mentioned many times before, apart from 4e, no other edition of D&D has had a campaign setting product released less than a year after the Core rulebooks. Because they are a LOT of work and cannot be written overnight. Why should we expect this D&D team - smaller than any prior team - to be able to produce a book faster? Until November, they were hard at work on the DMG and it takes a least a month for a finished book to be printed and another month (at least) just to do layout. Are you really expecting them to crank out a 320-page campaign setting from scratch in just six months?! Even TSR apparently gave five months for a 160-page boxed set. [/QUOTE]

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