Dannager
First Post
I believe that is an "Office Space" reference, and the stapler is being taken FROM the person being fired, not being given TO them as severance.
Oh. Hey. Yeah.
Let's pretend that I never posted anything.
I believe that is an "Office Space" reference, and the stapler is being taken FROM the person being fired, not being given TO them as severance.
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.
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.
Just a clarification to some of the above (and very much cold comfort).
Regular layoffs by the company that makes D&D go back to 83 or 84 (the golden age, ironically, when hundreds were working at TSR). The annual Xmass layoff started with Hasbro, in the 3E era.
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
So who's left that created 4E besides Mearls, Cordell, and Thompson?
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.
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, 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
...
PS. And oh, New Staff
Tom Lapill, (possibly) Monte Cook
Inclined me to give this comment.