Aus_Snow
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I hear 4e is like, totally metal.Tetsubo said:I fear for your metal health if you do.
I hear 4e is like, totally metal.Tetsubo said:I fear for your metal health if you do.
WayneLigon said:Eh, somehow D&D and everyone else got along without such a thing for 25 years before. Nothing would be substancially different if it didn't exist now.
Monkey Boy said:Thanks, in no small part to the OGL, DnD looks vibrant to me. Why should we give up on the DnD renaissance and go back to the way things were?
I would argue DnD would be substantially different with no OGL. Variety and choice is the spice of life.
Sanguinemetaldawn said:See, I am trying to understand your position. And if D&D wasn't a success when Gary or Peter was in charge, then either you are saying D&D was a success under Lorraine and Hasbro, or you are saying that D&D was never a bona fide success. Since Lorraine Williams drove the company into bankruptcy, and we have 3 editions in 9 years with Hasbro, I just can't see the first.
So the alternative is that D&D was never a genuine success.
Monkey Boy said:I would argue DnD would be substantially different with no OGL. Variety and choice is the spice of life.
Relique du Madde said:I don't doubt it. Hell at this point I won't be surprised if decided to kill GSL because he felt that it would be giving DnD's competitors an "edge in the game" so to speak.Moon-Lancer said:I know its long shot but is it possible that the gsl delay is tied to the new president? (be it that he is ether the fix or a cause.)
Tetsubo said:My personal experience has been different. I've never met a person with an MBA that I would let manage a lemonade stand, let alone a company. They have shown me a complete lack of understanding of those that work for them AND a total failure to grasp reality. If it doesn't fit their preconceived notion of how the world works, it gets ignored. I believe that at some point in the process of acquiring an MBA the brain is killed off. It is then replaced by an overwhelming sense of importance and entitlement.
Again, I want a gamer to head WoTC.
Tetsubo said:Frankly I'd rather see the company fold than turn D&D into a tabletop MMO/wargame.
3.5: The Last Edition of D&D.
Ah, I see. The typical cheaply cynical management-are-idiots, up-with-the-little-people, response.Tetsubo said:My opinion is based on watching and dealing with management types for twenty-four years.
If your experience is different I would love to hear it. Mine has shown that a company succeeds in spite of its management, not because of it. That the people who do things actually handle the running of the place. Management a pretty much just figureheads. Highly paid figureheads mind you. But figureheads.
Monkey Boy said:I would argue DnD would be substantially different with no OGL. Variety and choice is the spice of life.
Most gamers probably couldn't manage any business more complex than a taco stand. As evidence, I offer this thread.Tetsubo said:I've seen too many marketers and MBA holders convinced that they could "manage anything". I want the head guy at WoTC to be a gamer. Not some marketing suit. This is another example that WoTC is headed in the wrong direction. Nothing good will come of this.