WotC D&D's Christopher Perkins Promoted to Creative Director

On Twitter WotC's Christopher Perkins clarified queries about his new role after it was revealed that the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide would be his last book as Product Lead--he is now D&D's Creative Director, which looks like a broader, more overview-type job. Creative Director was the role that Mike Mearls held until 2018 before moving over the Magic: The Gathering, and George Krstic held a similarly named role until August this year.

Not true. I was a Game Design Architect. Now I’m the Creative Director, which is a more “behind the scenes” gig that lets me play quietly in a bunch of different sandboxes. #wotcstaff

 

[Eyes of Nine]

I wonder if they could persuade Ajit George to take on the Design Architect role

 

[teitan]

I suppose it will be interesting to see who takes on Chris' old role. I have to be honest and say he was one of the few people I've still heard of around there. Maybe those folks use social media and I just miss it but I've got no idea who's even there at the moment.

My hope is Wyatt, he is the only one that has worked on the game as long, longer even, than Chris and he's definitely got the chops for it and to do it very, very well.

 

[teitan]

It's more than just a slight value difference, the economics on small game modules are really dire. You could buy the 320 page Icewind Dale book for $50 at most, or 10 32 page modules at $30 apiece? It's just not feasible.

The way things are going it would be a slip case with three slim books and a screen for $90

 

[Parmandur]

The way things are going it would be a slip case with three slim books and a screen for $90

Oh, it would be way worse than that, just going off of inflation. If I may recycle an old post, updating a few numbers:

So, in the day (per my research a while back), they cost about $7-9, which today would be $27-$35 MSRP. That's just inflation, but my understanding is that printing prices have actually gone up well aheadd of inflation since the 80's...but for the sake of discussion, let's go with $27-$35 as a realistic-ish modern module price point in your FLGS.

Tales from the Yawning Portal is currently $29.71 on Amazon.

So, buying all 7 5E versions of the Yawning Portal Modules as independent booklets (totally doable, obviously) would cost somewhere between $189-$245.

As opposed to $29.71

looks sidelong at threads where folks are rending their garments and donning sackcloth and ashes over a $10 price increase in hardcovers

 

[teitan]

Oh, it would be way worse than that, just going off of inflation. If I may recycle an old post, updating a few numbers:

So, in the day (per my research a while back), they cost about $7-9, which today would be $27-$35 MSRP. That's just inflation, but my understanding is that printing prices have actually gone up well aheadd of inflation since the 80's...but for the sake of discussion, let's go with $27-$35 as a realistic-ish modern module price point in your FLGS.

Tales from the Yawning Portal is currently $29.71 on Amazon.

So, buying all 7 5E versions of the Yawning Portal Modules as independent booklets (totally doable, obviously) would cost somewhere between $189-$245.

As opposed to $29.71

looks sidelong at threads where folks are rending their garments and donning sackcloth and ashes over a $10 price increase in hardcovers

And here is Goodman games producing the same products, floppies, for $10 and hardcovers of them collected for $50.

 

[SteveC]

My hope is Wyatt, he is the only one that has worked on the game as long, longer even, than Chris and he's definitely got the chops for it and to do it very, very well.

Thanks for this! I knew there had to be someone still around there that I had heard of. I think that would be a solid choice. Much appreciated.

 

[Quickleaf]

Congrats to Chris!

And may he be shielded from the corporate executives at the parent company.

 

[Parmandur]

And here is Goodman games producing the same products, floppies, for $10 and hardcovers of them collected for $50.

Lower print quality for the floppies thwn the old TSR stuff, though I enjoy them, and printed in China.

I am talking about what WotC would do if they printed similar books to TSR printed in the US, and just charged the inflation adjusted rate.

 

[darjr]

Mastering Dungeons update.
Listening to it now

 

[darjr]

Not much new in the podcast