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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gothmog" data-source="post: 1302880" data-attributes="member: 317"><p>I voted generally unhappy with WotC, although I should say my true sentiments are neutral to slightly negative.  I enjoy 3.5 and think the revision was necessary and made many good changes to the game, making the game more playable and less prone to powergaming abuse.  However, all of the other WotC products over the last year have been very lackluster IMO.  WotC focuses too much on production values, making a pretty product, and "crunch", while ignoring the possibility of taking their supplements in a truly interesting and innovative direction.  Other D20 publishers consistently outshine them IMO (Green Ronin, FFG, Atlas, Mongoose, Kenzer, and MEG are the consistent high quality companies), making more innovative and useful products for my gaming purposes.  While I am somewhat anticipating Unearthed Arcana, I'm also not going to get my hopes up about it- I've been burned by WotC in that manner too many times before.  Plus, they have a habit of releasing full color hardback books that should be B&W softbacks simply to jack the price up (Arms & Equipment Guide, Complete Warrior, and if I bought FR stuff like Underdark and Unapproachable East).  While the pretty full color books are nice, if they don't have much bang for my gaming $ (which I don't think they do), I'd much rather have a less pretty book with better ideas.</p></blockquote><p></p>