Leon Barillaro Joins Wizards of the Coast as D&D Designer

Barillaro started working for the company this year.
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Leon Barillaro has also joined Wizards of the Coast as part of the D&D design team. As announced on their social media page, Barillaro is an experienced RPG designer with numerous third-party supplements on DMs Guild. They have design credits with MCDM, Renegade Games Studios, and EN Publishing as well. Per their Linkedin, Barillaro is working as a game designer for the D&D team.

Barillaro joins James Haeck as a new employee at Wizards of the Coast, with Justice Arman also receiving a recent promotion within the company as well. All three have similar resumes, having built up their resumes on DMs Guild material and third-party work before hopping over to join Wizards of the Coast in an official capacity.
 
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Zardnaar said:
Itz durect descends died. Wasn't Holmes a cleaned up abd revised OD&D?
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OD&D also was the starting point for AD&D, they just took it in somewhat different directions. Chances are Holmes was closer than 1e was, never read Holmes or OD&D. Not sure how closely Moldvay then stuck to Holmes either

Given that Holmes only went to level 3 and was basically considered the starter set for AD&D rather than a separate line, I still would see OD&D as part of the 1e line, with Moldvay being the real start of the separate basic line
 
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mamba said:
OD&D also was the starting point for AD&D, they just took it in somewhat different directions. Chances are Holmes was closer than 1e was, never read Holmes or OD&D. Not sure how closely Moldvay then stuck to Holmes either

Given that Holmes only went to level 3 and was basically considered the starter set for AD&D rather than a separate line, I still would see OD&D as part of the 1e line, with Moldvay being the real start of the separate basic line
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Holmes had seperate race and class iirc. Monday did not.

Monday is the real start for all intents and purposes imho. But we have 3 distinct basic lines due to Holmes and BECMI imho.
 

mamba said:
OD&D also was the starting point for AD&D, they just took it in somewhat different directions. Chances are Holmes was closer than 1e was, never read Holmes or OD&D. Not sure how closely Moldvay then stuck to Holmes either

Given that Holmes only went to level 3 and was basically considered the starter set for AD&D rather than a separate line, I still would see OD&D as part of the 1e line, with Moldvay being the real start of the separate basic line
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Holmes was really not the starter set for AD&D, though, it was a cleanup of OD&D instead.

Having read OD&D, AD&D and Moldvay in some depth, Moldvay is a rewrite of OD&D by someone with more training in writing and more experience running D&D than Gygqx had in 1974.
 

Parmandur said:
Holmes was really not the starter set for AD&D, though, it was a cleanup of OD&D instead.
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There was no real starter set then, that is just an approximation using today's terms. Holmes ending at level 3 and being simpler than AD&D clearly meant it was an on-ramp to AD&D rather than a separate line like BX and BECMI were however
 

mamba said:
There was no real starter set then, that is just an approximation using today's terms. Holmes ending at level 3 and being simpler than AD&D clearly meant it was an on-ramp to AD&D rather than a separate line like BX and BECMI were however
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And yet its distinct from AD&D
 

mamba said:
There was no real starter set then, that is just an approximation using today's terms. Holmes ending at level 3 and being simpler than AD&D clearly meant it was an on-ramp to AD&D rather than a separate line like BX and BECMI were however
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It was designed to be an introduction to OD&D itself, which was still being actively printed and on sale in stores alongside it.
 

So basically we have

OD&D, Holmes
OD&D, AD&D, 2e, 3e, 4e, 5e (and however many steps in between you think you want)
BX and BECMI and maybe one precursor of your choice from OD&D and AD&D
 

mamba said:
So basically we have

OD&D, Holmes
OD&D, AD&D, 2e, 3e, 4e, 5e (and however many steps in between you think you want)
BX and BECMI and maybe one precursor of your choice from OD&D and AD&D
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There were also multiple iterations of D&D after the Mentzer version, too, and one might say 3E is a straight line from AD&D, nor 4E from 3E. Kind of messy.
 

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