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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 2744506" data-attributes="member: 2067">Anyone can be useful. A *leader* should be more. It takes game design and grunt work to make a Spell Compendium. Game design and grunt work should be the bare minimum for a game company. The Spell Compendium should have been wrapped up in a bow and delivered to every gamer's household as par for the course. It's something a dedicated enough community could have done. It's the toaster waffle jingle. And I know WotC can do better, can do more. They can do the Spell Compendium, sure. And they should. But they shouldn't stop at re-publishing things we've seen before. That's lazy, and they deserve to be called on it, as much as they deserve to be praised for how useful a compendium of updated spells is. I'm not going to kiss the ground they walk on because they did something that they were to a greater or lesser degree obligated to do. Yes, in every single book. I'm not giving to charity, here, when I shell out my hard-earned chicken feed for their hard work. If their hard work isn't WORTH the chicken feed they get from me, they need to be told to change so that it is.I'm not trying to prove anything beyond that WotC produces some shockingly shallow products. And they don't have to. So their descision to do so is aggrivating to me. Am I allowed that?They deserve accolades aplenty for that. But that doesn't let them off the hook, either. I'm not going to turn the other way just because they once did something groundbreakingly grand. They deserve praise for updating and compiling all of their spells in one central locale. That doesn't mean I'm not going to call them on the things that it doesn't do, however. Things that a fan community couldn't do. Things that would earn more of my chicken feed. Things that only WotC could do. They can do wonderful and new things. So they must be held to that high standard. The path of an industry leader was never supposed to be an easy one. A big book o' spells that they've already done is not new and is very debatably wonderful.</blockquote>

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