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Dungeoncraft was an excellent idea, because rather than just give us a setting and charge us $40 for it, Ray Winniger gave as a how-to on building a campaign, which is something that has always been a chapter at most of the DMG, when in reality it constitutes about 90% of the work and the play. I love the changes that Hasbro and WOTC has brought about with 3rd ed, and with 3.5 as well. What I don't love is the shameless self-promotional money grubbing that they do on both the net and in print. I guarantee that WOTC will never publish a book on, say, home-brewing your own feats. Instead, they will reuse the tag-line : "Contains over 30 new feats" on some less than satisfying HARDCOVER that sets you back $39.95. And they wont tell you that most of those feats are reused themselves from earlier products.
D&D still rules, however. WotC just needs to start telling us how to, rather than selling us more product.