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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 6092041" data-attributes="member: 82106">[MENTION=55363]Drammattex[/MENTION] I hear what you're saying. There just seems to be some edge missing somewhere at least part of the time. I don't know if it is something inherent in working for a bigger shop with relatively a lot of resources or exactly what it is. I think people sense it though. There's an inherent conservatism. I don't doubt for one minute that all the guys you mentioned are highly creative and super capable. I certainly am not one of the "look at those idiots" crowd. I just read what the designers are doing and saying over at Paizo, AND DO RIGHT OUT IN THE OPEN EVERY WEEK, and it is just clear that they're working under less constraints and they somehow get to think more about game stuff as game stuff somehow. I think that's EXACTLY what is at the heart of why WotC is getting whipped by Paizo. It isn't because "blah 4e blah", and putting out DDN won't just fix it, because it isn't about rules.I bought all the 4e supplements D'Karr is talking about, and I LIKE 4e a lot, but again, CLEARLY there's something going on here, it isn't just some disgruntlement with how the rules work or how they're presented even. I think every one of those products is good and I own all of them IIRC, but yet none of them quite rose to the level of being great enough. Which product got an Ennie? Really! It wasn't Heroes of the Feywild, as nice a product as it is, and I thought it was great. Even that one didn't quite push things enough. All of it was really good, but it didn't pass from really good to 'blew me away'. That's what WotC has to do if they're going to survive in this business. At least now and again they have to really catch fire in a bottle. They have to be consistently better than the competition, and right now apparently they're not quite there.</blockquote>

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