The new faces at Wizards

[MerricB]

Is it just my imagination, or is Wizards moving back into a hiring mode with D&D?

There seem to be a bunch of new freelancers working for Wizards, and some who have even ended up as fulltime staff.

Cheers!

 

[Mouseferatu]

Well, don't know about full-time staff. But as far as freelancers, I know that C.A. Suleiman, Joe Carriker, and myself have all recently completed our first (and in some cases, more than our first) projects for WotC. (I'm just starting up on my third in the next few days.)

As to why this seems to be more prevalent now, I couldn't begin to tell you. But I can say that I'm seriously grateful for it.

 

[philreed]

As to why this seems to be more prevalent now, I couldn't begin to tell you. But I can say that I'm seriously grateful for it.

It's likely cheaper to use freelancers than staff. But all we can do is guess.

 

[MerricB]

I seem to remember someone (Monte?) saying that the use of freelancers goes in cycles - you have times when everyone is on staff, and then times when lots more freelancers get used.

Currently, Wizards has a system where they get a lead designer of a book on staff, and then might contract out work for that book.

If I have my facts straight, Stephen Schubert is one of the new Wizards employees (he worked on Heroes of Battle and Magic of Incarnum - he comments on the latter, "it's an exciting book, and something entirely different than anything you might expect. It was definitely fun to write. We can elaborate more once the catalog is released."

Cheers!

 

[Li Shenron]

...and Magic of Incarnum - he comments on the latter, "it's an exciting book, and something entirely different than anything you might expect."

Then this book is simply going to be something completely unrelated to magic.

 

[TerraDave]

They seem to be churning more stuff out. Cash flow from the D&D minitures may be allowing them to invest in more projects and people. Hopefully that includes some editors, and some highly creative types for the new ground they seem to be trying to break (present company included of course )

 

[JoeGKushner]

Hopefully they get more new artists and continue to use the good ones like Doug Griffith some more too. His work on Frostburn was great.

 

[Turjan]

... and Magic of Incarnum - he comments on the latter, "it's an exciting book, and something entirely different than anything you might expect."

I only expect them to change the title . Let's see whether they'll prove me wrong .

 

[MavrickWeirdo]

Is it just my imagination, or is Wizards moving back into a hiring mode with D&D?

There seem to be a bunch of new freelancers working for Wizards, and some who have even ended up as fulltime staff.

Cheers!

I'm guessing that might be because the "familiar faces" have branched out on their own.

 

[rowport]

I hope with new hiring, some solid editors are included. I generally have liked all the recent WOTC books, but the proofreading gaffs are beyond all rational levels. A few minor typos or math errors I can overlook, but the lack of editing in Complete Divine, for example, was a serious distraction from the quality of the ideas in the writing. That is a disservice to the authors as much as the customers buying the book.