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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 2961848" data-attributes="member: 14159">Same here, I trust Skip Williams on rules calls.  His calls might not be the best on occasion, but they usually were, and were pretty solid.  He earned his reputation.I do think the rapid-fire pace WotC has been producing books has been making things worse though.  For about a year in 3e, books came out about once a month, and everybody could digest them.  This month: Manual of the Planes, next month Oriental Adventures.  Well, when they ran out of 1e books to retread, and 2e Complete Suchandsuch Handbooks to redo under different names and sometimes crunched together, then they really started making a whole lot more.Now several a month, laden with "crunch": Base Classes, Prestige Classes, Feats, Spells, Rules Options, Monsters, and with each one comes more potential for something truly hideous to spring forth unnoticed.  I'm pretty sure that Andy Collins has other duties at WotC other than being just the "Sage" rules answer guy, and keeping up with the constantly increasing volume of rules, and being able to learn them all, test combinations, and have enough skill to make consistently good decisions about the entire range of products, given the size of the range of products and the speed at which it is increasing, would be a full time job unto itself.</blockquote>