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<blockquote data-quote="kigmatzomat" data-source="post: 9221091" data-attributes="member: 9254"><p>You are aware that Penny Arcade has collaborated with WotC, right? You heard of Acquisition Incorporated? It's in print and D&D Beyond? It's a product of Tycho & Gabe of Penny Arcade (plus a bunch of other people like Chris Perkins of WotC which is actually my point). Plus Gabe has done art for a couple MtG cards and I <em>think</em> Tycho may have come up with a few creatures or at least the flavor text. There are also several merchandise tie-ins on both sides. Which means they have been actually working professionaly with a variety of Wotc product teams since 4e was released. </p><p></p><p>And oh yeah, they have a series of game conventions that have happened on 5, maybe 6, continents. They are called PAX (Penny Arcade eXpo). WotC sends folks to a lot of those conventions and oddly, I suspect the PA guys talk games with the WotC folks.</p><p></p><p>Lastly, they live in the Seattle area, same as WotC. I think they are roughly a half hour away. Hence being able to game with Chris Perkins on a regular basis.</p><p></p><p>So between being personally and professionally acquainted with WotC staff on multiple product teams across two editions for well over a decade and having active business deals ongoing with WotC between AcqInc to MtG to Pax, I see no reason to disbelieve their assertion they have direct and personal knowledge of who is impacted inside the D&D-specific work force,that they are knowledgeable about what those people's roles actually were and were likely involved in preliminary discussions on 5.5e collaborations to be able to make inferences on impact to future products.</p><p></p><p>Most of the time they do opine on things with no first hand knowledge but this, this particular thing, this is something they are probably better informed than most WotC employees.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="kigmatzomat, post: 9221091, member: 9254"] You are aware that Penny Arcade has collaborated with WotC, right? You heard of Acquisition Incorporated? It's in print and D&D Beyond? It's a product of Tycho & Gabe of Penny Arcade (plus a bunch of other people like Chris Perkins of WotC which is actually my point). Plus Gabe has done art for a couple MtG cards and I [I]think[/I] Tycho may have come up with a few creatures or at least the flavor text. There are also several merchandise tie-ins on both sides. Which means they have been actually working professionaly with a variety of Wotc product teams since 4e was released. And oh yeah, they have a series of game conventions that have happened on 5, maybe 6, continents. They are called PAX (Penny Arcade eXpo). WotC sends folks to a lot of those conventions and oddly, I suspect the PA guys talk games with the WotC folks. Lastly, they live in the Seattle area, same as WotC. I think they are roughly a half hour away. Hence being able to game with Chris Perkins on a regular basis. So between being personally and professionally acquainted with WotC staff on multiple product teams across two editions for well over a decade and having active business deals ongoing with WotC between AcqInc to MtG to Pax, I see no reason to disbelieve their assertion they have direct and personal knowledge of who is impacted inside the D&D-specific work force,that they are knowledgeable about what those people's roles actually were and were likely involved in preliminary discussions on 5.5e collaborations to be able to make inferences on impact to future products. Most of the time they do opine on things with no first hand knowledge but this, this particular thing, this is something they are probably better informed than most WotC employees. [/QUOTE]
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