Just have to let you guys know there in "Dragon" know that the recent "Off to see the Wizards" article in #347 was brilliant. I loved it. It was a nice change of pace from the more "fluff" and "crunchy" articles present in "Dragon." I thought it was fascinating to see how a standard day goes for the folks in WotC. They seemed stressed! Heck, it even inspired me to format one of my adventures and send it to "Dungeon"! Not that it promises to be any good, granted. ;-)
Just had one question. And this is something I've always felt applied to video-game designers as well: When their hobby becomes their job, do a lot of the writers and workers at WotC get tired of D&D? It just seems that, by working in something that is normally a hobby for most, they'd get tired of it quickly and not want to play anymore. Any truth to this?
Keep up the great work!
Ryan (Ogre_Bane)
P.S. If I ever do make a trip around the WotC headquarters, do they give tours? Or do you have to be a super-special "Dragon" employee?
I'd love to go on a tour of the Paizo & Wizards offices! I'll bring donuts and cookies!!
Or pie. I make pie, too!
Still waiting for my issue. Over Two weeks after the release date seems rather long, I wonder if all those black dragons have been causing shipping snafu's <G>
-Dave
i haven't read the article yet, but it seems interesting enough so i plan to. :)
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Still waiting for my issue. Over Two weeks after the release date seems rather long, I wonder if all those black dragons have been causing shipping snafu's <G>
Nope. Merchandise is shipped from our office; subscription issues are shipped directly from the printer. (Besides, the warehouse folks are pretty much all caught up!) I'm sure it's just the post office doing what the post office does....
I'll put you on the list for a replacement copy, but since we haven't received our back issue stock yet, it won't go out immediately. Please let us know if it turns up in the meantime.
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Just had one question. And this is something I've always felt applied to video-game designers as well: When their hobby becomes their job, do a lot of the writers and workers at WotC get tired of D&D? It just seems that, by working in something that is normally a hobby for most, they'd get tired of it quickly and not want to play anymore. Any truth to this?
I think those who get D&D burnout move up to management or administration, where they don't have to deal with it on a day-to-day basis. I know that I've had D&D burnout a few times since coming to Paizo, but that's why we have vacation days. It's good sometimes to just go away somewhere and not talk about or think about your job, even if you love your job (and the hobby tied to it) more than anything else (excluding family and friends, naturally). :)
P.S. If I ever do make a trip around the WotC headquarters, do they give tours? Or do you have to be a super-special "Dragon" employee?
You can take a tour, but you won't get to see much. Wizards of the Coast tours used to pass through R&D and all the other "cool" places, but then some bad people had to go and ruin it for everyone else by leaking information after they'd visited the offices. So now you don't get to see the nerve center unless you sign an NDA, but I don't know who gets the option of signing an NDA.
(See how much you can learn just from chatting up receptionists.)
Seeing how as I'm already under an NDA for another one of my pastimes, I wouldn't have a problem doing it again.
Do baked goods still count as a method of getting past the R&D bouncers? :)