D&D General Adam Bradford, Lauren Urban, Todd Kenrick Leave D&D Beyond

They join lead writer James Haeck, who left a couple of weeks ago. Adam Bradford is the D&D Beyond co-founder, and VP of Tabletop Gaming at its owner, Fandom. Lauren Urban is DDB's Community Manager. Todd Kenrick is the company's Creative Manager.

D&D Beyond, launched in 2017, is currently owned by Fandom (previously known as Wikia), after it acquired the company in 2018 from previous owner Curse, a Twitch subsidiary.

According to Cam Banks, creator of DDB owner Fandom's Cortex, all three received offers elsewhere which they could not turn down.

 

[Zardnaar]

6E will arrive when it arrives the earliest I expect it is 2024. Failing that some sort of special anniversary new cover or something.

 

[darjr]

Now I need to run some Firefly! Not. Enough. Time.

 

[Oofta]

This just in! People in tech moved in from their job for a better/different one.

Also: water is wet.

What? That's ridiculous! I would never ... hold on ... flips through resume seeing how many time I've switched jobs for better or different opportunities ... okay. Maybe.

 

[thom_likes_gaming]

Wait.... DDB is NOT owned by Curse anymore? Then why the blazes do I still have to use a freaking Twitch account to log in (or Facebook, Google, whatever poison is out there)?!? Wouldn't separating from Curse (Twitch / Amazon) be the ideal moment to get rid of that cursed (hah!) junk?

 

[jgsugden]

Also one persons “obvious” signs may just be conspiracy theory. You may indeed be correct but man your posts read like a person with a wall covered in random photos and twine. Do you not see that?

My posts read like: There is a reason to express concern because there are multiple circumstances that could be indicative of trouble.

Yours read like: Unless you provide me overwhelming evidence I am wrong I will refuse to consider any possibility that there might be something wrong with my view.

Do you not see that?

 

[Emirikol Prime]

Wait.... DDB is NOT owned by Curse anymore? Then why the blazes do I still have to use a freaking Twitch account to log in (or Facebook, Google, whatever poison is out there)?!? Wouldn't separating from Curse (Twitch / Amazon) be the ideal moment to get rid of that cursed (hah!) junk?

You don’t have to use it. They left it as an option.

 

[darjr]

My posts read like: There is a reason to express concern because there are multiple circumstances that could be indicative of trouble.

Yours read like: Unless you provide me overwhelming evidence I am wrong I will refuse to consider any possibility that there might be something wrong with my view.

Do you not see that?

No. Your posts invent trouble. Your posts posits things we do not know as if they are true and proof positive that there is trouble. You go beyond the evidence.
Just one example,

* They could have some idea that Fandom is going to streamline/cut costs. As they have had inadequate resources to fully implement things that have been in the books since the very beginning (Life Cleric, for example), that could be something that drives people out while the getting is good. Most people in Corporate America have felt a budgetary Sword of Damocles.

you invented almost all of that in this case.

you don’t “know” ya know?

 

[Backcountry164]

Be unsurprised if it's WotC.

If it is, expect 6E sooner rather than later.

Definitely possible, but I've seen poaches that looked exactly like this.

WotC has flat out said that they will only do books. Anything else will be licensed out. So why would they poach people whose experience lies in other areas?
Corporate reshuffling looks just like this too. If you watched Todd's goodbye video he sure didn't seem excited to be moving on to greener pastures...

 

[SkidAce]

Also one persons “obvious” signs may just be conspiracy theory. You may indeed be correct but man your posts read like a person with a wall covered in random photos and twine. Do you not see that?

I didn't feel their speculations were that crazy, just more like...speculation.

 

[darjr]

I didn't feel their speculations were that crazy, just more like...speculation.

Yea, that was too harsh.