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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HeapThaumaturgist" data-source="post: 2130472" data-attributes="member: 12332">I'm not sure WHO thought that D&D movie was a good idea.  We listened to the commentary for a few minutes and it seems like the author of the screenplay spent over a decade trying to get that steaming pile made.   They should have got Dead Gentlemen Productions to do it.  (Guys who did "The Gamers".)  Woulda done it cheaper, too, I imagine.  <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=":)" />  Sorry.  That movie is one of my great beefs.  I laughed with sadness for two full minutes as the credits rolled.I think WotC's doing okay - in fact, I think they're doing sneakily well.  The OGL allows them to shift non-profitable elements to 3rd party publishers.  During the time they were producing core books, they let others take up the slack in other areas.  Now that the core market is saturated they can move to "splatbooks".  While class options and feats have been done to death by 3rd party publishers, in my community at least, the Complete line is selling very nicely just because it has the WotC stamp on it.  When adventures become a good product for sales again I'm sure WotC may produce a few more modules.  Right now I'd like to see another adventure path series from them for running at the college game group (where I like stuff I don't have to prep.  We're currently using and re-using Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil because it's big enough to take a year or two and there's a community out there that has already converted it to 3.5).--fje</blockquote>

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