Leon Barillaro Joins Wizards of the Coast as D&D Designer

Leon Barillaro has also joined Wizards of the Coast as part of the D&D design team. As announced on their social media page, Barillaro is an experienced RPG designer with numerous third-party supplements on DMs Guild. They have design credits with MCDM, Renegade Games Studios, and EN Publishing as well. Per their Linkedin, Barillaro is working as a game designer for the D&D team.

Barillaro joins James Haeck as a new employee at Wizards of the Coast, with Justice Arman also receiving a recent promotion within the company as well. All three have similar resumes, having built up their resumes on DMs Guild material and third-party work before hopping over to join Wizards of the Coast in an official capacity.

 

[trs31]

Any one hired who has normal pronouns? It is not particularly representative of the general population if they all identify as They/thems. Wonder how likely they will be to be activists rather than just get on with the job?

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Any one hired who has normal pronouns? It is not particularly representative of the general population if they all identify as They/thems. Wonder how likely they will be to be activists rather than just get on with the job?

Mod Note:

ENWorld is a family-friendly space. ALL family. Keep the non-inclusive musings to yourself, please and thank you.

 

[trs31]

Mod Note:

ENWorld is a family-friendly space. ALL family. Keep the non-inclusive musings to yourself, please and thank you.

There is nothing that is not family friendly about musing if someone will concentrate on a Job they have been employed to do or focus on activism at the expense of quality. EN world is perfectly entitled to shut down debate on this but please don't pretend it is to protect a family friendly space.

 

[Afroconan]

There is nothing that is not family friendly about musing if someone will concentrate on a Job they have been employed to do or focus on activism at the expense of quality. EN world is perfectly entitled to shut down debate on this but please don't pretend it is to protect a family friendly space.

50 years ago you would be complaining about them hiring a bunch of she/hers.

The same old sexism repackaged for the modern day.

 

[Misanthrope Prime]

There is nothing that is not family friendly about musing if someone will concentrate on a Job they have been employed to do or focus on activism at the expense of quality. EN world is perfectly entitled to shut down debate on this but please don't pretend it is to protect a family friendly space.

I've got nonbinary people in my family and if you're not friendly with them you and I are going to have a naughty word problem.

 

[trs31]

50 years ago you would be complaining about them hiring a bunch of she/hers.

The same old sexism repackaged for the modern day.

I don't think that is the case here (although you are entitled to jump to your own conclusions) I think my concern is more to do with people that go out of their way to telegraph their differences when there is no need to. Why insist that they want to be called They/Them (they are after all only one person so why use the plural?). I appreciate that some people my not particularly identify as a "he" or a "she" but why would any of us need to know that about them? My concern is that the sort of people that want to make a big deal of this sort of thing normally do so at the expense of the projects they work on. I am sure there are many LGBTQ+ people who are just getting on with the job but then we might not even know who they are because they don't telegraph it.

 

[Misanthrope Prime]

I don't think that is the case here (although you are entitled to jump to your own conslusions) I think my concern is more to do with people that go out of their way to telegraph their differences when there is no need to. Why insist that they want to be called They/Them (they are after all only one person so why use the plural?). I apreciat that some people my not particulalry identify as a "he" or a "she" but why would any of us need to know that about them? My concern is that the sort of people that want to make a big deal of this sort of thing normally do so at the expence of the projects they work on. I am sure there are many LGBTQ+ people who are just getting on with the job but then we might not even know who they are because they don't telegraph it.

Why did Gary Gygax tell everyone he was an insufferable Jehovah's witness, sexist, racist and all around pig?

Did that stop him from making D&D?

 

[Morrus]

There is nothing that is not family friendly about musing if someone will concentrate on a Job they have been employed to do or focus on activism at the expense of quality. EN world is perfectly entitled to shut down debate on this but please don't pretend it is to protect a family friendly space.

Do not challenge moderators in-thread. If you are confused about the rules you agreed to, please review them. You won’t be posting again in this thread.

 

[Afroconan]

ÑWhy insist that they want to be called They/Them (they are after all only one person so why use the plural?).

Singular they has been in use since the 14th century.

I've been using it for at least 25 years and English is my second language.

As for the rest... I'll just refer to my previous comment.

 

[Misanthrope Prime]

If anyone actually gave a naughty word whether or not the D&D team was representative of the "general population" you should be asking where the naughty word the Chinese and Indian employees are. Or you don't actually care about the general population, but instead care for a specific in-group.

We have a word for people like that. We call them bigots, and then we stop talking to them.