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<blockquote data-quote="Jester David" data-source="post: 6252493" data-attributes="member: 37579">Sure. You should have access to my email via my profile. If not, why not throw a screen shot of the email (with contact details blurred) into Dropbox and post the link. I listened to podcast recordings of Winter Fantasy 2010. Likely the Tome Show. But it could also have been a GenCon while they were hyping a Essentials. I do recall them saying new player friendly products were planned from the start. But that's different than saying they planned to permanently redesign how they handled classes and release future books in digest format (which they looked like they were planning on doing before they delayed Heroes of Shadow and turned it into a hardcover. I think they were planning a newbie book or starter set, but then decided to make an entire product line. We're having a debate/discussion. The burden of proving your arguments rests on you. The burden of disproving your arguments or proving my own rests on me. Oh, oh, and until recently I regularly frequented the WotC forums and while these topics have been discussed frequently over there, there was never anything resembling a consensus, let alone a conclusion. Okay, now we're back on topic. Keep in mind while it used to legally be conserved a person, WotC is not an individual. WotC does not lack business sense; people at WotC lack business sense. And most of the staff associated with 4e including the brand manager have left WotC. And, having made bad decisions and seen bad decisions made, hopefully the current staff will have learned a lesson. We don't know much about the current team's business sense; although I really liked the late 4e books from 2011, which speaks well to their design chops.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jester David, post: 6252493, member: 37579"] Sure. You should have access to my email via my profile. If not, why not throw a screen shot of the email (with contact details blurred) into Dropbox and post the link. I listened to podcast recordings of Winter Fantasy 2010. Likely the Tome Show. But it could also have been a GenCon while they were hyping a Essentials. I do recall them saying new player friendly products were planned from the start. But that's different than saying they planned to permanently redesign how they handled classes and release future books in digest format (which they looked like they were planning on doing before they delayed [I]Heroes of Shadow[/I] and turned it into a hardcover. I think they were planning a newbie book or starter set, but then decided to make an entire product line. We're having a debate/discussion. The burden of proving your arguments rests on you. The burden of disproving your arguments or proving my own rests on me. Oh, oh, and until recently I regularly frequented the WotC forums and while these topics have been discussed frequently over there, there was never anything resembling a consensus, let alone a conclusion. Okay, now we're back on topic. Keep in mind while it used to legally be conserved a person, WotC is not an individual. WotC does not lack business sense; people at WotC lack business sense. And most of the staff associated with 4e including the brand manager have left WotC. And, having made bad decisions and seen bad decisions made, hopefully the current staff will have learned a lesson. We don't know much about the current team's business sense; although I really liked the late 4e books from 2011, which speaks well to their design chops. [/QUOTE]

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