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

Olaf the Stout · 2026-01-29T07:25:35+0000

Zardnaar said:
Who's Dianna Jones?

Mostly 3rd party types and a writing credit in a team effort book.

Easy to miss. Don't use beyond. 3rd party may as well not exist and who read credits?

I stopped buying 3rd party years ago. Had so much of it never used it.

The Diana Jones award is a fairly prestigious RPG award.

It’s actually not named after a person, but rather the Indiana Jones RPG (best to read the story about it, as I’ll likely get bits wrong).

LuisCarlos17f · 2026-01-29T08:48:00+0000

Wait a moment! If WotC is hiring more people, should this mean more sourcebooks will be released each year?

I suspect, or I am afraid, Hasbro's intentions is WotC to become an IP farm, the true goal would be to create new franchises.

* Radiant Citadel is too "small" to be a setting. It is like if I wanted to play a zombie apocalypse but we couldn't exit the mall-center to explore the rest of the city or to hunt animals in the near forest.

Zardnaar · 2026-01-29T09:30:13+0000

LuisCarlos17f said:
Wait a moment! If WotC is hiring more people, should this mean more sourcebooks will be released each year?

I suspect, or I am afraid, Hasbro's intentions is WotC to become an IP farm, the true goal would be to create new franchises.

* Radiant Citadel is too "small" to be a setting. It is like if I wanted to play a zombie apocalypse but we couldn't exit the mall-center to explore the rest of the city or to hunt animals in the near forest.

More books yes. What they are source books, adventures or splat shrug.

Retros_x · 2026-01-29T09:53:17+0000

Superchunk77 said:
That was my point in my original post.

Your original post claimed it was bad writing. But it turned out, its just not your taste. I personally thought that many adventures in the book were quite well designed (not all of course).

In general I appreciate all the new faces and designers. I want something fresh. If I want to play old DnD, I can play old DnD. I don't see any benefit in rehashing old stuff. I am excited what this could mean for D&D in the upcoming years and I am curious.

Paul Farquhar · 2026-01-29T11:43:57+0000

LuisCarlos17f said:
Wait a moment! If WotC is hiring more people, should this mean more sourcebooks will be released each year?

No, they are replacing older people who are moving on. And the pipeline for a new book is roughly two years, do we are unlikely to see their ideas in print until late 2027. This year’s output will be things started by the old guard, which may go some way to explain the announcement hiatus.

Parmandur · 2026-01-29T12:12:42+0000

Paul Farquhar said:
No, they are replacing older people who are moving on. And the pipeline for a new book is roughly two years, do we are unlikely to see their ideas in print until late 2027. This year’s output will be things started by the old guard, which may go some way to explain the announcement hiatus.

The announcement hiatus is probably as simple as the next thing is coming in April or May. Historically not abnormal.

Paul Farquhar · 2026-01-29T12:15:17+0000

Parmandur said:
The announcement hiatus is probably as simple as the next thing is coming in April or May. Historically not abnormal.

But the reason we probably aren't getting anything till May may well be because if someone leaves a project half way through it takes longer for someone else to pick it up.

Parmandur · 2026-01-29T12:27:59+0000

Paul Farquhar said:
But the reason we probably aren't getting anything till May may well be because if someone leaves a project half way through it takes longer for someone else to pick it up.

Wouldn't think so: the only departures were Crawford and Perkins, and they had already been promoted to the level that other people were leading book projects.

Paul Farquhar · 2026-01-29T12:56:06+0000

Parmandur said:
Wouldn't think so: the only departures were Crawford and Perkins, and they had already been promoted to the level that other people were leading book projects.

These are the two we know about, but when you have an aging staff in a high pressure industry you have to assume some are winding down for health reasons, which is a private matter that the company isn’t going to announce.

Parmandur · 2026-01-29T13:04:32+0000

Paul Farquhar said:
These are the two we know about, but when you have an aging staff in a high pressure industry you have to assume some are winding down for health reasons, which is a private matter that the company isn’t going to announce.

I mean, we know who the team members are, they also post actively on social media...? There isn't much in the way of an "Old Guard", James Wyatt is the "Elder Statesman" at this point I guess, but most of the staff were far younger than Perkins in particular.

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

Christian Hoffer

Olaf the Stout

Legend

LuisCarlos17f

Legend

Zardnaar

Legend

Retros_x

Hero

Paul Farquhar

Legend

Parmandur

Book-Friend, he/him

Paul Farquhar

Legend

Parmandur

Book-Friend, he/him

Paul Farquhar

Legend

Parmandur

Book-Friend, he/him

Similar Threads

Recent & Upcoming Releases

Related Articles

Recent & Upcoming Releases