random incoherence and infantile meanderings

I don’t think this is old news yet, though I cannot seem to find anything in print that confirms what I heard in the latest D&D Podcast.   The closest I can find is a press release from Wizards that says “Organizational change is always difficult on those impacted”.

According to the podcast, the official D&D Podcast, Dave Noonan was let go as part of a restructuring. This annoys me mostly because Noonan and Mearles are basically the forward face of the latest edition of D&D. From what I have seen, 4E was represented by them. They had the answers and the reasons behind the answers. With the amount of crying about staying with 3.5 or moving to new systems, I don’t understand how Wizards or Hasbro could possibly consider it a smart move to get rid of half the friendly intelligent face that Noonan put forth as an ambassador of 4E.

Half the bloody reasons I wanted to get 4E when it came out, and still half the reasons that I want to actually play 4E, are a direct result of listening and reading what Noonan and Mearles had to say.

Gah!