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<blockquote data-quote="callinostros" data-source="post: 7676600" data-attributes="member: 72615">Yes, this is all mostly a matter of semantics. The underlying issue at hand is that currently WotC is suffering from the stigma of &quot;not producing any new books of their own&quot;. Crawford is saying that they do...sort of. Crawford is trying to split hairs on the word outsourcing. Fundamentally that is what WotC is doing. He is trying to say that they aren't because of added material and oversight of the product. However, they are not really writing their own books, certainly not in the way WotC and TSR did in the old days where all the design work was done in house.For some people &quot;WotC designing their own books&quot; means in-house writing and design, like the old days. For the new WotC D&amp;D department it means &quot;writing some but not the bulk of it&quot;. That divide is large for some people, and for those people what WotC is doing right now is definitely outsourcing, no matter how much WotC is trying to squash the idea that they are not designing their own books. However, whether or not the books are outsourced or not, by and large the books have been done well (IMO).Also, some people are irritated that WotC is trying to tell us what &quot;outsourcing&quot; means despite our own knowledge of its meaning.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="callinostros, post: 7676600, member: 72615"] Yes, this is all mostly a matter of semantics. The underlying issue at hand is that currently WotC is suffering from the stigma of "not producing any new books of their own". Crawford is saying that they do...sort of. Crawford is trying to split hairs on the word outsourcing. Fundamentally that is what WotC is doing. He is trying to say that they aren't because of added material and oversight of the product. However, they are not really writing their own books, certainly not in the way WotC and TSR did in the old days where all the design work was done in house. For some people "WotC designing their own books" means in-house writing and design, like the old days. For the new WotC D&D department it means "writing some but not the bulk of it". That divide is large for some people, and for those people what WotC is doing right now is definitely outsourcing, no matter how much WotC is trying to squash the idea that they are not designing their own books. However, whether or not the books are outsourced or not, by and large the books have been done well (IMO). Also, some people are irritated that WotC is trying to tell us what "outsourcing" means despite our own knowledge of its meaning. [/QUOTE]

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