Taylor Navarro Joins Wizards of the Coast as D&D Designer

A lot of new hires recently. I don’t care to speculate about what if anything that might mean, but it is exciting.

Congratulations!!

Neat.

Charlaquin said:

A lot of new hires recently. I don’t care to speculate about what if anything that might mean, but it is exciting.

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One assumes a major shift for the 2027 slate, right?

Reynard said:

One assumes a major shift for the 2027 slate, right?

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I try not to assume, but as assumptions go that seems like a pretty reasonable one.

Another Radiant Citadel writer. Expectations lowered.

Superchunk77 said:

Another Radiant Citadel writer. Expectations lowered.

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What about Radiant Citadel makes you feel like having people that worked on it on the design team will result in worse products?

Reynard said:

One assumes a major shift for the 2027 slate, right?

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It definitely suggests a more cosmopolitan approach to D&D than it's had in the past. And it also suggests that maybe 2026 will be a relatively quiet year with the last of the old guard's stuff in the pipeline and otherwise simple to get to market books. (Any day now on those announcements, WotC!)

I’d actually like to see some of the Radiant Citadel material to be revisited!

darjr said:

I’d actually like to see some of the Radiant Citadel material to be revisited!

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Me too, although I'm not sure what I'd like them to do.

Giving too many more details about the Concord Worlds limits their portability and I think it's valuable to be able to drop these places into Toril or a homebrew world. That said, some of the settings are tiny, like a single valley in a larger society, so fleshing things out a bit seems reasonable. (And San Citlan as a whole campaign setting of it own would be beyond amazing.)

I'd also like to get more detail on the citadel itself. I started my campaign with an adventure set there, but I had to do a fair amount of heavy lifting for a setting that is the centerpiece of a $50 book, unless I wanted my level one future Shieldbearers to spend all their time rubbing shoulders with immortal spirits, etc., which is not the vibe I wanted. (I went with a modified Romeo & Juliet story with young lovers from different Concord Worlds.) Either I'd like a lot more detail about the citadel or an actual low level adventure set there, to help cover this gap for people running Journeys.

A new Radiant Citadel book also seems like a good way to introduce more planar content, especially inner planes content.