WotC Chris Perkins announces Retirement from Dungeons and Dragons

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Hero

• Apr 4, 2025

• #31

Aw. I liked Perkins. Wishing him the best for his future.

 

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Sorcerers Apprentice

Hero

• Apr 4, 2025

• #32

Impressive that one person lasted 28 years at WotC without ever getting laid off.

 

FitzTheRuke

Legend

• Apr 4, 2025

• #33

He could probably make a pretty good career at this point by DMing live events or streams.

I guess it depends on how "retired" he plans to be.

 

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Hutchimus Prime

Adventurer

• Apr 4, 2025

• #34

He was the inspiration for me getting back into running D&D with my friends after way to long away.

 

Leatherhead

Possibly a Idiot.

• Apr 4, 2025

• #35

FitzTheRuke said:

He could probably make a pretty good career at this point by DMing live events or streams.

I guess it depends on how "retired" he plans to be.

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Perhaps he could open up a tavern for fledgling Adventurers to get quests in?

At any rate, this is truly the end of an era. Perkins started his career about one year after I first got into D&D. Really puts things into perspective.

 

popuman

Explorer

• Apr 4, 2025

• #36

Thanks so much Mr. Perkins. Enjoy your well-deserved retirement.
I reckon it's the House of Crawford now.

 

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TiQuinn

Registered User

• Apr 4, 2025

• #37

I am not really surprised - I’m guessing there wasn’t much to move onto after 5e and 5.5.

 

pukunui

Legend

• Apr 4, 2025

• #38

Honestly, I’ve long felt Perkins was overrated as both a designer and a “celebrity DM”. (Not saying that he was bad at either; just not as worthy of adulation as a lot of people seem to think.)

However, I am impressed that he managed to last 28 years with the same company. I’ll be interested to see if he gets a new job somewhere else (either in the RPG space or something completely different) or whether he really is retiring.

I do wish him the best! And I’m sure Milo will enjoy having him at home more!

 

aco175

Legend

• Apr 4, 2025

• #39

He is moving on to the board of Hasbro investors. We can hope.

 

SteveC

Doing the best imitation of myself

• Apr 4, 2025

• #40

From time to time I ask "Hey, who actually is still doing design work at WotC?" And people have reminded me of Chris Perkins, which always makes me say, "Oh, yeah, I suppose I should probably just chill out..."

And here we are today. I wonder who's going to finally turn the lights off there.

But good on Chris! Enjoy it until you're lured out of retirement by the big bucks of the industry!