D&D 5E So now 5ed has been released who will be fired this 4th quarter?

[Zaukrie]

How about this moves out of the 5e area to somewhere we don't need to see it?

 

[Wrathamon]

Is this like a celebrity dead pool?

First, not funny but second probably true.

 

[Teflon Billy]

[MENTION=2885]diaglo[/MENTION] [MENTION=264]Teflon Billy[/MENTION] welcome back to the boards?


(and no one, they will be hiring)

Hey thanks!

 

[DaveMage]

I'm guessing no one because the team has already been reduced to a bare minimum.

 

[KirayaTiDrekan]

Granted this is a little tasteless in terms of things to be speculating about but...

Chris Perkins is my bet. His name has not been featured as prominently lately in 5E as the others who are still there. He has that celebrity convention DMing thingy but that seems to be it and he doesn't need to be a WotC employee to do that.

 

[Mistwell]

They are currently hiring for several positions for D&D in particular, WOTC in general, and they have so many openings for MtG right now that if they did want to move anyone out of the D&D department they would just move them over to MtG.

 

[Halivar]

None. As others have stated, notice that all the art and adventures were contracted work; I would expect those to get the can after they are no longer needed. WotC did right to contract this out to some quality folks, and there is no pressure to lay anyone off because they didn't hire anyone in the first place.

 

[Zardnaar]

They are currently hiring for several positions for D&D in particular, WOTC in general, and they have so many openings for MtG right now that if they did want to move anyone out of the D&D department they would just move them over to MtG.

Looks good compared to the usual pattern.

 

[billd91]

They are currently hiring for several positions for D&D in particular, WOTC in general, and they have so many openings for MtG right now that if they did want to move anyone out of the D&D department they would just move them over to MtG.

That's where James Wyatt went.

But I'm not sure I'd call hiring solid evidence they aren't laying off their older and more expensive talent. That's been a pattern of theirs too - drop the higher salary staffers and replace with someone a chunk cheaper.

 

[Jester David]

I'm with the people who say that the D&D Team has likely been reduced to the smallest functional size. Any smaller and it ceases to be able to produce useful products. They're already so small that books had to be reduced because content couldn't be developed fast enough without quality slipping, and they're unable to release books and magazines at the same time.

If anyone goes it would likely be Chris Perkins or Rodney Thompson. Greg Bilsland or Bart Carroll are also possibilities. If it's anyone we know and not a marketing or licensing figure.
5e is will likely do well enough (and the response is good) so the people who designed it are safe, and are really needed for future products. The rest of the staff is needed for the licensing and designing the books and managing the much more essential freelancers.

But more likely WotC will lay off the rest of the Kaijudo team this fall, sparing D&D the axe. Thankfully.
But hopefully no one loses their job. That would be nice.