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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 6840351" data-attributes="member: 996">They farm most of those out, as I understand it.  There really aren't a lot of designers working at WotC, it seems.  D&D just isn't getting the resources from WotC/Hasbro that it was 7 or 10 years ago.  It's just that D&D has never been a big source of revenue relative to other properties.  According to an insider who posted here years ago, sometime c2006 or something, there was some secret meeting at which WotC pitched D&D as an IP capable of MMO-like revenue, if only they'd throw a lot of money at it for a few years.  The result was 4e, and when it's on-line tools didn't live up to the hype and generate that huge subscription revenue stream, the resources went away, and WotC re-trenched, first with Essentials, then the Next playtest & 5e.  The good news is that D&D no longer labors under unrealistic revenue goals - the Hasbro policy that made it necessary to shoot for such goals just to survive has apparently changed, and D&D is safe for the moment, and, doing well, as as far as we can tell, compared to how it's done in the past decade or two, and relative to its actual, rather than imaginary/potential, market.Bottom line, you're not going to get a lot of stuff coming down the pike, not unless DMsGuild is up to your standards and/or 3pps start running with the 5e SRD and go back to publishing under the OGL the way they used to.I'm sure they have plenty of company at the WotC building - just none of 'em officially working on D&D.If you were used to the kind of support D&D got in the middle of the 2e run, in 3.5, or in early 4e, then, no, probably not - the resources just aren't there.  OTOH, if you remember how the game held up for many years before that with just a book or so a year, it's not that devastating.</blockquote>

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