WotC's Annual Xmas Layoffs
Sucks you got laid off. But then again, this is by the same company that "laid off" D&D with their 4th Edition crap which you had no choice but to deal with. Don't worry about whether you can do Forgotten Realms novels or not, the Forgotten Realms died when it was jammed with 4E. There's not many fans left.
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Pour
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I almost gave you experience points for making me roll my eyes and laugh. Cheers!
Dannager
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There were actually 2 big layoffs during TSR era. You mentioned the first, the 2nd happened about 6 months before WotC bought TSR, before X-mas of 1996 (which I was part of).
I do hope Rich and Steve both land on their feet after this sad day.
Michael Huebbe
aka The OGRE
Head Spellfire Geek
Alzrius
The EN World kitten
I don't mean to threadjack, but I was wondering if you knew of anything happening with Spellfire lately. The official home of Spellfire online - Welcome to the Official Spellfire Website! - seems to have died after the release of Conquest.
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It's really sad to hear that Rich and Steve were let go. Rich's been a name I've seen in many of my favorite D&D products ever since I started playing the game, and I have fond memories of Steve's work as well. Best of luck to both of them!
Windjammer
Adventurer
James Wyatt. Mearls and Cordell weren't on the core 4E design team. Here's the PHB 1 design credits. Those who haven't been sacked yet are in white. Corrections welcome [Update: first corrections now incorporated. Thanks to Chris Pramas and Logan Bonner!]
D&D® 4th Edition Design Team
Rob Heinsoo, Andy Collins, James Wyatt
D&D 4th Edition Final Development Strike Team
Bill Slavicsek, Mike Mearls, James Wyatt
Player’s Handbook Design
Rob Heinsoo, Andy Collins, James Wyatt
Player’s Handbook Development
Andy Collins, Mike Mearls, Stephen Radney-MacFarland,
Peter Schaefer, Stephen Schubert
Player’s Handbook Editing
Michele Carter, Jeremy Crawford
Player’s Handbook Managing Editing
Kim Mohan
Additional Design and Development
Richard Baker, Greg Bilsland, Logan Bonner, Bart Carroll,
Michele Carter, Jennifer Clarke Wilkes, Bruce R. Cordell,
Jeremy Crawford, Jesse Decker, Michael Donais, Robert
Gutschera, Gwendolyn F. M. Kestrel, Peter Lee, Julia
Martin, Kim Mohan, David Noonan, Christopher Perkins,
Matthew Sernett, Chris Sims [fired, but back on contract-basis]
Ed Stark, Rodney Thompson, Rob Watkins, Steve Winter, Chris Youngs
Director of R&D, Roleplaying Games/Book Publishing
Bill Slavicsek
D&D Story Design and Development Manager
Christopher Perkins
D&D System Design and Development Manager
Andy Collins
D&D Senior Art Director
Stacy Longstreet
D&D Brand Team
Liz Schuh (?), Scott Rouse, Sara Girard, Kierin Chase (?),
Martin Durham (?), Linae Foster
...
PS. And oh, New Staff:
Tom Lapill, (possibly) Monte Cook
Inclined me to give this comment.
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Remus Lupin
Adventurer
That actually adds a good bit of very disturbing perspective of what these layoffs have meant.
I might have to steal this as its own news item!
Logan_Bonner
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Also still there (AFAIK): Jeremy Crawford, Kim Mohan, Greg Bilsland, Jennifer Clarke-Wilkes, Peter Lee, Matthew Sernett.
Fired, but now working there again as a contractor: Chris Sims
Plus there's more new staff than that, but that's not really useful as a comparison. Also, some of those departures were voluntary (Ed Start and Gwen Kestrel, for example).
Fired, but now working there again as a contractor: Chris Sims
Plus there's more new staff than that, but that's not really useful as a comparison. Also, some of those departures were voluntary (Ed Start and Gwen Kestrel, for example).
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