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<blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 5652198" data-attributes="member: 82106">Wolfgang Bauer pulls it off all the time. I don't think ANY Open Design projects have turned out badly. I guess there could be a brick or two in there somewhere as I haven't read all of them, but I was in on one and I've got a couple of others. Courts of the Shadow Fey is arguably about the best 4e adventure out there. I think they've also been doing a cooperative setting design with Midgard as well. So, you're right. You need the proper management of the project. Someone with a lot of design experience and the talent to actualize the product. Wolfgang is easily capable of designing good stuff on his own to start with and is really about at the top of the heap of adventure designers. WotC would have to find someone equally talented at both the design and project management aspects, though they might be able to manage with a couple of people filling those roles.This kind of thing is in any case quite doable, has been done multiple times in the past, is being done right now as we speak, and almost certainly is something WotC is at least technically capable of attempting with a good chance of success. I kind of suspect they're a little too top-down though. Big shops get risk-averse and tend to run things that way. I think it would probably be a bit too scary for them to invest a lot of time and money into a project that might turn something out that doesn't fit with their overall marketing vision of what they think D&amp;D is about. I think Mike and the other D&amp;D team people might be game for it. I just think they'd have a hard time selling the idea to their bosses. Of course I could be totally wrong, hopefully.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="AbdulAlhazred, post: 5652198, member: 82106"] Wolfgang Bauer pulls it off all the time. I don't think ANY Open Design projects have turned out badly. I guess there could be a brick or two in there somewhere as I haven't read all of them, but I was in on one and I've got a couple of others. Courts of the Shadow Fey is arguably about the best 4e adventure out there. I think they've also been doing a cooperative setting design with Midgard as well. So, you're right. You need the proper management of the project. Someone with a lot of design experience and the talent to actualize the product. Wolfgang is easily capable of designing good stuff on his own to start with and is really about at the top of the heap of adventure designers. WotC would have to find someone equally talented at both the design and project management aspects, though they might be able to manage with a couple of people filling those roles. This kind of thing is in any case quite doable, has been done multiple times in the past, is being done right now as we speak, and almost certainly is something WotC is at least technically capable of attempting with a good chance of success. I kind of suspect they're a little too top-down though. Big shops get risk-averse and tend to run things that way. I think it would probably be a bit too scary for them to invest a lot of time and money into a project that might turn something out that doesn't fit with their overall marketing vision of what they think D&D is about. I think Mike and the other D&D team people might be game for it. I just think they'd have a hard time selling the idea to their bosses. Of course I could be totally wrong, hopefully. [/QUOTE]

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