There was a point where WotC was good for a Christmas Purge like clockwork. That kinda stopped / slowed down as D&D Next / 5e was getting it's polish.
Now that 5e is pretty much all outsourced for it's adventures and just about everything else, should it simply be called D&D OS (for "outsource" of course ;)
Anyway, it looks like art director Mark Painter is one of the victims of the latest round of WotC layoffs.
Read the thread over at ENWorld. It actually has a good list of what WotC is outsourcing these days in the comments section.
Felltower & Mapless Combat
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I recently posted a set of guidelines for non-tactical, mapless combat for
Felltower. I wanted to get down in one place all of the rules I'd made to
supple...
6 hours ago
Is this why we don't have an 3rd party license yet?
ReplyDeleteInsane. Either they make so much money D&D is a side project (and thus they can afford some staff), or D&D makes a lot of money (and thus can afford some staff), or D&D loses money and someone needes to be auditted because that just doesnt grok.
ReplyDeletePerhaps they should spin D&D (the tabletop rpg only) off into a semi-independant company. Wizards only really seems interested in the other aspects of the property (videogames, eyc).
At least thats mu opinion I coukd be wrong.
I hope they have someone or some group working on additional monster books at least.
ReplyDeleteThey already made the books. all they need is a printer. Why would they need a staff of many?
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