Re: WOTC pulls plug on Dragon & Dungeon mag

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Adam Miller" <night_druid3000@?????.com>
Sent: Monday, April 23, 2007 12:27 PM
Subject: Re: [SPELLJAMMER] WOTC pulls plug on Dragon & Dungeon mag


> --- David Shepheard <david_shepheard@???????.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I'm sorry to hear that Dragon and Dungeon are
>> getting the elbow. A lot of other people are too.
>> The Dragonlance Forums have a busy thread about this
>
>> and I'm sure that bad vibes are in a lot of other
>> places.
>
> I've seen a couple of threads go over 1000 posts in
> places about it.  People are just a wee bit angry over
> the situation.
>
> All I have to say is, I almost wish I was going to
> GenCon this year.  The WotC booth will
> be...interesting...this year.  Poor smucks that have
> to man it should get hazard pay; from some of the
> comments I've seen, they'll be lucky to make it out of
> GenCon in ambulences...:o

The problem with that sort of attitude is that people at Gen Con are 
probably temporary workers and the pencil pushers in suits back at Hasbro 
probably don't care what they think.

If people really want to complain, they should find out the name of the 
managing director of Habro, and write a personal letter to him/her - and 
that should be a rational letter *not* a raving rant. If the managing 
director of Habro got sackfuls of mail about Dragon and Dungeon magazines 
and had to hire extra staff to help him find the letters that were not about 
Dragon or Dungeon, I think he/she would take more notice. This technique 
worked with Star Trek and it is probabably the best shot that Dragon and 
Dungeon magazines would have. (Even if it didn't save these magazines, it 
might stop WotC doing the same thing to Soverign Press when the Dragonlance 
licence comes up for renewal.)

David "Big Mac" Shepheard
Virtual Eclipse Role Playing Club
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