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<blockquote data-quote="El Mahdi" data-source="post: 4591804" data-attributes="member: 59506">Fair enough.&nbsp; But someone saying that the complete line of books is solely driven by suits in search of pure profit, and implying that those who wrote it weren't gamers writing something based on ideas and creativity they had, isn't fair at all.&nbsp;That was a rather overstrong rant on my part.&nbsp; And, I may have overstated a bit saying management wasn't involved at all.&nbsp; I apologize for the tone.&nbsp; But reading those books, it's easy to see direct correlation to ideas and concepts in earlier products, campaign sets, and even fiction books (of which it's probably a safe bet to say most of those writers are gamers themselves, also).&nbsp;This isn't to say that there aren't products from TSR or WoTC that started as revenue generating product ideas by a &quot;Suit&quot;.&nbsp; But I've never read a D&amp;D product, whether it was one I liked or not, that I didn't feel that the person who wrote it wasn't a gamer themself and was attempting to add to the collective body of creative role-playing material.&nbsp; Someone saying that those writers creative work is simply page filler dictated by a suit is, to say the least, insulting to our fellow gamers who wrote those products.&nbsp;Now, critiquing the products on their merits is another story.&nbsp; One that probably most everyone here would feel is fair game.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="El Mahdi, post: 4591804, member: 59506"] Fair enough. But someone saying that the complete line of books is solely driven by suits in search of pure profit, and implying that those who wrote it weren't gamers writing something based on ideas and creativity they had, isn't fair at all. That was a rather overstrong rant on my part. And, I may have overstated a bit saying management wasn't involved at all. I apologize for the tone. But reading those books, it's easy to see direct correlation to ideas and concepts in earlier products, campaign sets, and even fiction books (of which it's probably a safe bet to say most of those writers are gamers themselves, also). This isn't to say that there aren't products from TSR or WoTC that started as revenue generating product ideas by a "Suit". But I've never read a D&D product, whether it was one I liked or not, that I didn't feel that the person who wrote it wasn't a gamer themself and was attempting to add to the collective body of creative role-playing material. Someone saying that those writers creative work is simply page filler dictated by a suit is, to say the least, insulting to our fellow gamers who wrote those products. Now, critiquing the products on their merits is another story. One that probably most everyone here would feel is fair game. [/QUOTE]

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