The Ghost
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The designer is the one who comes up with the ideas and mechanics. The developer then takes those ideas and mechanics and refines them. He tweaks and changes to make sure it works within the context of the system.
Stephen Schubert is the new D&D Lead developer
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The designer is the one who comes up with the ideas and mechanics. The developer then takes those ideas and mechanics and refines them. He tweaks and changes to make sure it works within the context of the system.
Okay, I'm genuinely curious what happened to Mike Mearls, because apparently I missed the news.
Obryn
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Glyfair
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Exactly. The title should be "Mike Mearls is the new D&D Lead Designer"
Ahh, I see now... and the title of this thread is misleading calling Shoe the new Lead Designer while the article it's referring to says he's now Lead Developer.
Also, if Shoe replaced Mearls because Mearls got moved (laterally promoted? IDK), then who is Mearls replacing? And why wasn't there a news brief about him?
Glyfair
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Rob Heinsoo was D&D lead designer.
Designers decide what is going into a game.
Developers decide how the game is going to work.
Essentially Designers are Marketing (who scheme up grand visions and promise people things that don't exist yet) and Developers are Engineers (who do all the heavy lifting to deliver on all those blue-sky proposals).
Then again, I might be a smidge biased in my assessments.
- Marty Lund
Developers decide how the game is going to work.
Essentially Designers are Marketing (who scheme up grand visions and promise people things that don't exist yet) and Developers are Engineers (who do all the heavy lifting to deliver on all those blue-sky proposals).
Then again, I might be a smidge biased in my assessments.
- Marty Lund
You're the OP, isn't that your job?Somebody please rename this thread
I believe if you click "edit" on the original post, and then click "Go Advanced" you should be able to edit the thread title.
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