WotC Greg Tito On Leaving WotC: 'It feels good to do something that doesn't just line the pockets of *****'

We reported earlier that WotC's communications director Greg Tito had left his 9-year stint managing the Dungeons & Dragons brand for a political appointment as Deputy Director of External Affairs for the Washington secretary of state's office.

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...

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In a surprising turn of events, Tito criticized his former employers, saying "It feels good to do something that doesn't just line the pockets of a**holes." He later went on to clarify "Sorry. I meant "shareholders".

Tito is now Deputy Director of External Affairs for the Washington Secretary of State office in Olympia, WA.

 

[LordEntrails]

More of a take than trying to assert that 'any reasonable person' would have mercenary* contacts, much les exercise them against private citizens?

*Yes, they are.

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The are a publicly available company, anyone can contact them to hire them.

since Dan and WotC both seem to have put this behind them, I am not sure why we are arguing this on their behalf. Verbal calisthenics?

Emotional attachment to a point of view that is not supported by facts. Gotta justify your beliefs by arguing them vehemently.

 

[Ulorian - Agent of Chaos]

Like Ulorian, you are tossing me into a group that I am not a member of.

Just so we're clear, I haven't tossed you into any group, or made any sort of judgement about you... because I have never met you. Really. Carry on whilst I munch my popcorn though.

 

[Oofta]

I'm weird. I make poor judgements, like trying to convince people on the internet. But re-engaging after you say you are done seems weird to me.

But maybe weird to me, is actually normal. Either way, carry on!

Yeah, I have a bad habit of responding to people when they ask for a response. Even when it's the same thing we've repeated over a dozen times.

 

[Eric V]

Just so we're clear, I haven't tossed you into any group, or made any sort of judgement about you... because I have never met you. Really. Carry on whilst I munch my popcorn though.

Your second paragraph from post 335 reads otherwise, but if you're walking that back now, fine.

 

[Eric V]

Yeah, I have a bad habit of responding to people when they ask for a response. Even when it's the same thing we've repeated over a dozen times.

I don't think anyone's asked you for anything in this thread...

 

[Ulorian - Agent of Chaos]

Your second paragraph from post 335 reads otherwise, but if you're walking that back now, fine.

You made me work there! I went and reread that post. You were arguing against me! So I guess you aren't of the opinion that Pinkerton engaged in a militaristic action then? That's the group I lumped you in with in that post. Sorry about that! We good now?

 

[Staffan]

So, any one have opinions on 4e?

4e had plenty of good ideas (healing surges, rituals, encounter powers, making clerics replaceable), but also a bunch of problems:

• At release, it was poorly calibrated. Basically, the ideas had merit, but the math made things unsatisfactory. A big part of this can probably be blamed on the unnamed developer who, as a last-minute change, increased all the monster hit points by 20% or so. I think it would also have benefited from PCs having an additional encounter and daily power at level 1.
• It made some radical changes to D&D lore. Mind you, many of these changes are ones I like, like the Dawn War and the World Axis cosmology, but they're pretty different from what has otherwise been the D&D default which made a lot of people feel it "wasn't D&D".
• Things missing from the core books. We didn't get gnomes, half-orcs, barbarians, bards, or druids until PHB2, and Stone and Frost Giants didn't show up until MM2. To some degree that was because both classes and monsters took up a lot more space (classes because of powers, and monsters because most monsters came in several different varieties), but it still felt like stuff was missing.
• Bad early adventures. 4e is a game that wants each battle to be a boss battle, or at least a tactically interesting battle. That doesn't work so well with a typical dungeon crawl.

 

[Parmandur]

I am not sure why it would somehow be preferable to send lawyers aggressively after a customer, coating the customer a lot of time, money and stress for a worse result....?

 

[Vaalingrade]

It's also not ethically correct to hold onto that property. Terrible behaviour on the card holder's part in my opinion.

It's the hired goons bit where you're losing me. Ease off that please? Hyperbole never strengthens an argument. What is it about Pinkerton that is bothering you here?

I will endeavor to find a nice word for 'organization who profits off its reputation for threat of force that is a matter of historical record to the point that is is literally enshrined in word and song' once people stop calling a person who legally obtained goods from someone breaking a civil contract unethical or literally a thief.

 

[Ulorian - Agent of Chaos]

I will endeavor to find a nice word for 'organization who profits off its reputation for threat of force that is a matter of historical record to the point that is is literally enshrined in word and song' once people stop calling a person who legally obtained goods from someone breaking a civil contract unethical or literally a thief.

Sounds like you didn't want to take my advice! Enjoy your angry echo chamber. If you want to have an actual discussion, change your tone please. I'm happy to start over from square one.