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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8882661" data-attributes="member: 18">Yeah he's said he'll be back in gaming - which is interesting, given the long corporate career before he got back to games with WotC - and that's he taking a Long Rest (his capitalization!). Also some of his recent Twitter posts have been very on-brand for the guy who made Underground - he loves The Boys, which is unsurprising given how similar it is to Underground, tonally/conceptually.IANAL but I do see a shocking number of employment contracts and so on for high-end corporate execs (and similar), including some US law ones, in the course of my work (not filled-in ones, to be clear!), and need to understand how they work, and it seems that, he may be in one of two situations right now:1) Still technically employed by WotC but not actually doing any work for them ("gardening leave"), for some period, to ensure he's bound by anything he signed on to when he joined, but which would terminate when you leave (you'd be surprised how many companies are willing to hire execs without making them sign perpetual NDAs etc. - sometimes I feel like there's a fear similar to why some people don't do pre-nups even when they maybe should!).2) No longer employed them, but bound by a whole bunch of stuff agreed as part of severance package (NDAs, non-competes, non-disparagement etc.). He may even have been paid a lump sum to not get another job for X period, I've seen it done. I think non-competes are largely disallowed in California though so maybe not that? Usually there's a significant payment involved as consideration here.Certainly if I were WotC, and I was planning a potentially-controversial change, and someone major was leaving shortly before that, whether they protested about it or were fine with it, I'd want to put them under a whole bunch of restrictions for a few months at least (and hey that usually means a much larger severance package!).So I'd be surprised if we didn't hear about his projects by mid-late next year. But I'd also be surprised if he's at liberty to comment on this.</blockquote>

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