WotC D&D Hiring New Game Designer Months After Firing Many

The job pays from $86-145k and is for an experienced game designer—presumably much like one of those they let go a few months ago!

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Notably, one of those let go in December in Hasbro’s company-wide cost-cutting cull of over 1,000 jobs was D&D designer Dan Dillon. Dillon posted on Twitter—“Well. There it is. D&D is hiring a game designer, 8 months later. Was it worth it, you soulless f*****g cowards? Did you save enough money?”

 

[jerryrice4949]

you can, those threads might have the occasional WotC-complaint post, the frequency is much higher in WotC threads than D&D threads

Not by much and even then there are the insufferable ‘they aren’t making the game for me’ or ‘i am not there target audience anymore’ etc complaints. Often from people who aren’t even playing 5E and have no intention of playing the 2024 version. I never feel the need to go into the PF2 or Shadowdark threads and complain.

 

[Oofta]

you can, those threads might have the occasional WotC-complaint post, the frequency is much higher in WotC threads than D&D threads

I wouldn't be so sure about that. The same handful of people tend to find a way to put negative spin on pretty much everything around here. Sometimes it's justified, frequently it seems to just be an excuse to complain.

EDIT: and what @jerryrice4949 said as well.

 

[Scribe]

I never feel the need to go into the PF2 or Shadowdark threads and complain.

Why would you? Niche systems in relation to the monolith that is Wizards D&D just taking too much attention away from the 800lb Gorilla which sets the tone for what an 'RPG' is for the vast majority of the ecosystem?

 

[TiQuinn]

I wouldn't be so sure about that. The same handful of people tend to find a way to put negative spin on pretty much everything around here. Sometimes it's justified, frequently it seems to just be an excuse to complain.

EDIT: and what @jerryrice4949 said as well.

One could easily argue that it wouldn’t be kept alive and burning bright for hundreds of pages if not for those who never see a problem with anything WotC does responding to said threads.

 

[mamba]

The same handful of people tend to find a way to put negative spin on pretty much everything

there is a solution to that....

 

[TheSword]

I feel like I’ve slipped into an alternative dimension here.

How is WotC hiring a new designer a bad thing thing? Because they laid one off eight months ago? How on earth do folks know it isn’t because a different one has left or is approaching retirement, or is intended to work on a completely different project.

Nobody who gets made redundant expects the company never to recruit another person.

The continuous shade is enough to make a person sick.

 

[TheSword]

Right, like greenlighting massive layoffs to boost stock price for the investor class, and reap the personal benefits in stock option/bonus pay.

What on earth is the investor class? 62% of Americans own stock.

I don’t, but my mother who was a canteen worker and a secretory does.

Investing in companies is a good thing. Don’t demonize it.

 

[Parmandur]

Not by much and even then there are the insufferable ‘they aren’t making the game for me’ or ‘i am not there target audience anymore’ etc complaints. Often from people who aren’t even playing 5E and have no intention of playing the 2024 version. I never feel the need to go into the PF2 or Shadowdark threads and complain.

I wouldn't be so sure about that. The same handful of people tend to find a way to put negative spin on pretty much everything around here. Sometimes it's justified, frequently it seems to just be an excuse to complain.

EDIT: and what @jerryrice4949 said as well.

This is a problem with a definite solution...

The ignore feature really can improve the experience.

 

[Micah Sweet]

So it's no longer possible to discuss the 2024 paladin or the 2024 monk or the College of Dance or Vecna: Eve of Ruin or Greyhawk on these boards without having to retread all of the terrible things that TSR and WotC have ever done? Where should those of us go who used to come here to talk about D&D?

Depends. If you only want to talk about WotC's latest offerings, I think you'll have to endure some anti-WotC sentiment no matter where you go, not just this site.

 

[Micah Sweet]

or jump ship to some other TTRPG, all others are small in comparison and generally are more about what the designer / team wants than the pure profit motivation of Hasbro / WotC. Who knows, you might even find some that better fit your interest than the one-size-fits-all-but-not-quite approach of D&D

Jumping ship is definitely what I recommend. So many great games out there, many scratching a very similar itch.