You guys are looking at this completely wrong

A lot of people are saying "Fuck WotC for letting go Steve Winters and Rich Baker!" And brothers and sisters, I would normally be with you in the church singing those praises high into heaven. But you got to look at this from another angle.

WotC = shit.

Leaving WotC = wiping the shit off your boots.

Look at the trends. Paizo's business is booming. They have been hiring these cast aside WotC/TSR employees. These guys have lots of cred, I'm sure there is no end to the amount of freelance work they can do. Sure, freelance isn't health insurance, 401k, benefits, and all the good stuff stable work brings you, but money is money friend, and you can pay the rent freelancing as much as you can working at the shit mines.

Also, some people are surprised, to which I ask this rhetorical question: where have you been the last 11 years? WotC always celebrates christmas with a round of layoffs and then bringing in a homeless guy to have perform a cleveland steamer on with while drinking cognac and smoking cigars.

Every time someone says that someone got laid off at Christmas from WotC, I want you to link them to this picture: that will be your work and mission in this life. And then strike them - strike them as hard as you can. Drag them down the stairs and take their lifeless body into the backyard and bury the body in the ground. Bury it deep and bury it well. Bury the shame and the pain.

Woah, we just went to a weird place.