Greg Tito Leaves Wizards of the Coast

Greg Tito, formerly the communications manager in charge of overseeing messaging for the Dungeons & Dragons brand, is departing Wizards of the Coast for a career in the public sector. Tito announced that he would be joining the Washington secretary of state's office starting this week, ending an over 9-year stint at Wizards. Tito will be the Deputy Director of External Affairs for the Washington secretary of state's office.

In addition to his typical communications responsibilities, Tito was also a driving force for establishing a Dungeons & Dragons community that received official support for Wizards during the early years of 5th Edition. Tito helped spearhead a thriving Twitch channel that featured a mix of Actual Play shows and in-house D&D programming that previewed upcoming projects, showcased various community events, and provided insight into the actual design work of Dungeons & Dragons. Tito was also one of the driving forces behind the Stream of Many Eyes and subsequent D&D Live events, which served to highlight upcoming D&D campaign books and spotlight a community of Actual Play shows and celebrities who were passionate about Dungeons & Dragons. The D&D Live events largely wound down during the pandemic, although Wizards resurrected the D&D Live branding for a celebrity-studded live play event at Gen Con this year.

Tito was also the co-host of Dragon Talk, the official Dungeons & Dragons podcast that frequently featured guests from throughout the D&D community. Notably, Tito's new boss, Steve Hobbs, is also a noted D&D fan and appeared on an episode of Dragon Talk back in 2019. Dragon Talk went on hiatus in July 2023.

 

[Mistwell]

When you’d rather do communications in the political realm than for WotC it suggests. . . Well, something.

I think it suggests he wanted a change after a long time in the same job. It takes a long time to get that job (I think it's around a 6-9 month process) so it's not sudden. Deputy Director of External Affairs is a higher end very visible job political job, which can feed into much larger political jobs. Given the nature of it, I strongly suspect this is just something he wanted to do with this phase of his life, and not a reflection on the WOTC job.

 

[darjr]

Wow! Best wishes to Greg!

 

[Morrus]

Can’t wait for the posts speculating that this is a signs things are not well at WotC!

If it happens, let the record show that it was you who brought it up.

 

[bedir than]

It's just weird to me that a state would have its own Secretary of State, but that's because I'm Canadian and for us external affairs

In Washington the most notable thing the Secretary of State does is run elections. The position is mostly focused on the operations of the State.

 

[Parmandur]

When you’d rather do communications in the political realm than for WotC it suggests. . . Well, something.

It means more money, probably.

 

[Parmandur]

It's just weird to me that a state would have its own Secretary of State, but that's because I'm Canadian and for us external affairs are almost exclusively managed by the federal government, while provinces have almost complete control over internal affairs.

Which is neither here nor there. I wish him well at his new job - interesting to go from messaging for a gaming company to messaging for a state!

For States, the Secretary of State is responsible for elections and public records.

 

[Gorck]

Well I suppose this is the final nail in the coffin for Dragon Talk

 

[el-remmen]

Can’t wait for the posts speculating that this is a signs things are not well at WotC!

My post was supposed to be a joke about this, but I fear it went over people's heads.

 

[Charlaquin]

If it happens, let the record show that it was you who brought it up.

Touché!

 

[Henadic Theologian]

He'll very likely have much greater job security. I wish him well.

Thar depends on what happens in November, but this is not the place to speculate, either way I'm sure he will be fine.