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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Morrus" data-source="post: 5892465" data-attributes="member: 1">I'm glad you started with that. A thraed designed to pit half our userbase against the other half would not be welcome! And let's remember that as we continue the thread, please, folks.  Partually, that's something simple: company size. Smaller companies are more agile than larger companies. That's a truism in any industry. One day, we'll be complaining about Paizo in the same terms.  I'd disagree with that statement. This time round, WotC are releasing craploads of info about what they're doing. Enough that I've had to make <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showwiki.php?title=Books:D+and+D+Next" target="_blank">several pages</a> full of that info and find myself scrabbling to keep up with the deluge. And that's before the public playtests start in a few weeks, which really will be a deluge of info. Yes, they do treat product information like some kind of national security issue, which makes me laugh; delusions of being Apple or something with proprietary technology that other companies might actually try to steal. And yes, you can't shoot them an email and get an honest answer like you can the Paizo folks (that'll be a function of company size, though), but the secrecy sometimes seems silly. It's practices adopted in much larger markets for a reason; but there's no good reason for it in our tiny little corner of the world. All it does is alienate people. But I'm sure that's not how the staff want to be. Back when 3E was being developed, it's not how WotC worked. These days, you communicate with them via a PR company, and receive information as a "media partner" via sanitized, approved press releases. Back then, you'd get an email from Ryan Dancey or someone, and it would have actual information in it. But I guess that's about being part of Hasbro - so blame Peter Adkison for selling WotC. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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