https://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/6 ... _designer/Mike Mearls wrote:If D&D had been healthy and strong from 2000 to today, I'm probably still just a designer or maybe a team lead.
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https://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/6 ... _designer/Mike Mearls wrote:If D&D had been healthy and strong from 2000 to today, I'm probably still just a designer or maybe a team lead.
Mechalich wrote:The level of either cognitive dissonance or bold-faced lying necessary to make this statement is mind-boggling.Mike Mearls wrote:Based on what we've seen, I'd say that our release schedule has been a key component to D&D's explosive growth.
Eh. They've got enough back of the napkin shit that they publish as unearthed arcana web pages that i don't think this is the case. I honestly think its the opposite problem- Hasbro sees no value in throwing resources into D&D books, because they've seen the 'healthy and strong' brand in 2000 torn to shit by this specific chucklefuck.He must have convinced Wotc and Hasbro that the D&D section can just continuously glide on revenue from the big three books.
I used the laughing joker image too soon then. Did they include an image of a Mind Flayer eating?Voss wrote: a children's book featuring mind flayers.
What? 9/11? Pat Pulling would be a slightly better response than that.A lot of the answers in those reddit posts are sad [fronting about Greyhawk] and/or disturbing [laying the blame for his career and the destruction of the D&D brand on 9/11].
No Mike, that's about as expected as learning that the Sun is hot.Mike Mearls wrote:I'm far more loose with the rules than people might expect. My attitude as DM is that I'd rather let something ride than look up a rule. Even a broken character is only an issue if it stomps on another player's fun.
This is 100% true. There were a lot of people between him and the big chair. If there hadn't been mass firings that went all the way to the top of the D&D division every year of 4th edition's train wreck, he never would have gotten enough Klingon promotions to reach the top spot.Mike Mearls wrote:If D&D had been healthy and strong from 2000 to today, I'm probably still just a designer or maybe a team lead.
Of course. The funny part is that he realizes this, and admits it in public...FrankTrollman wrote:This is 100% true. There were a lot of people between him and the big chair. If there hadn't been mass firings that went all the way to the top of the D&D division every year of 4th edition's train wreck, he never would have gotten enough Klingon promotions to reach the top spot.Mike Mearls wrote:If D&D had been healthy and strong from 2000 to today, I'm probably still just a designer or maybe a team lead.
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Nothing at all and almost nothing, respectively. WotC doesn't need to care much about the D&D line.Aryxbez wrote:If Mearls was fired or otherwise left for greener pastures, what would even happen to WoTC, to D&D at this point?
I don't see any of those people as anything but replaceable.If Mearls and all his associates were fired, I assume that would be the end of the "D&D Team", and they'd just can the IP for years to come?