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

 

[Parmandur]

Maybe early 2023 or late 2022?

Oh, well. Fudge.

 

[Alzrius]

Maybe early 2023 or late 2022?

So right around the time of the OGL debacle? I can't help but wonder if that's a coincidence.

 

[kayakingpoodle]

Misquote!

 

[kayakingpoodle]

WotC is very unstable right now, at least from what I hear. There were people on Sigil who were there less than a year. They shut down a video game studio in Toronto even though they hired people on to it less than six months ago. Hasbro/WotC is having mini-layoffs every month to cut costs.

I also know that they have been offering early retirement packages to everyone age 55 on up, so it might be as simple as that.

Wizbro has given the impression over the last few years that they are quite rudderless in a choppy seas. They have been lucky to skirt between the ship sinking storms, but they just can't seem to pump the bilge faster than the capitan can keep the ship just above sinking. How long will the crew last is the real question.