Wizards Hires Erin Roberts as Game Designer for D&D

Wizards of the Coast has made another D&D game designer - this time tapping Erin Roberts, creator of the Godsbreath setting seen in Journeys from the Radiant Citadel. Roberts announced the hire on social media over the weekend. Similar to the hires of James Haeck and Leon Barillaro, Roberts is an established TTRPG designer. In addition to her credits at Wizards of the Coast, she's also worked for Paizo and Haunted Table. Her Godsbreath campaign setting has appeared in two different D&D anthologies, first appearing in Journeys from the Radiant Citadel.

Wizards has restocked its group of designers over the last year, following the departure of Jeremy Crawford and Chris Perkins. This is the third designer hired over the past couple of months, alongside the aforementioned Haeck and Barillaro. Additionally, Wizards promoted Justice Ramin Armin as the Director of Game Design.

While the D&D design team has put out a steady stream of Unearthed Arcana releases, no announcements of 2026 D&D products have been made as of yet.

 

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Wizards of the Coast has made another D&D game designer - this time tapping Erin Roberts, creator of the Godsbreath setting seen in Journeys from the Radiant Citadel. Roberts announced the hire on social media over the weekend. Similar to the hires of James Haeck and Leon Barillaro, Roberts is an established TTRPG designer. In addition to her credits at Wizards of the Coast, she's also worked for Paizo and Haunted Table. Her Godsbreath campaign setting has appeared in two different D&D anthologies, first appearing in Journeys from the Radiant Citadel.

Wizards has restocked its group of designers over the last year, following the departure of Jeremy Crawford and Chris Perkins. This is the third designer hired over the past couple of months, alongside the aforementioned Haeck and Barillaro. Additionally, Wizards promoted Justice Ramin Armin as the Director of Game Design.

While the D&D design team has put out a steady stream of Unearthed Arcana releases, no announcements of 2026 D&D products have been made as of yet.
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Awesome news! She's done great freelance work in the past - loved her stuff on Journeys through the Radiant Citadel and Pathfinder. Really solid pick to bring onto the in-house team, especially with WotC expanding their staff lately. Looking forward to seeing what she brings to future books!

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Okay is Radiant Citadel the setting like FR or are they a bunch of individual settings tgat just uses the Radiant Citadel as a just an easy way to get around between them for the anthology, because I was under the impression Radiant Citadel was the setting and Godsbreath was just a region within the setting?

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Okay is Radiant Citadel the setting like FR or are they a bunch of individual settings tgat just uses the Radiant Citadel as a just an easy way to get around between them for the anthology, because I was under the impression Radiant Citadel was the setting and Godsbreath was just a region within the setting?

FR could be considered a collective term for a bunch of individual settings, as could Ravenloft. Radiant Citadel is used as a collective term for a group of linked settings (as well as being a location within that group).

 

[Parmandur]

Okay is Radiant Citadel the setting like FR or are they a bunch of individual settings tgat just uses the Radiant Citadel as a just an easy way to get around between them for the anthology, because I was under the impression Radiant Citadel was the setting and Godsbreath was just a region within the setting?

The latter: Godsbreathis a distinct Setting all it's own, and quite good. Each Adventure in the anthology has a mini-Gazateer for a distinct world, though with advice in how you can integrate the Adventure into an existing Setting. In fact, the book has two Gazateers for worlds thst have no Adventure! The Citadel itself is a hub in the Ethetal plane thst can be used to cross between the worlds, with a sort of "Stargate Corps" potential frame.

Godsbreath is sort of a Southern Gothic High Fantasy take on the American Southwest, with the regions human population being refugees from a not-Africa analogue brought to a strange new frontier land by their gods who have a Hoodoo flavor.

The book advises thst it cna be run as presented in the Gazateer, or as a Domain of Dread, or set in Turmish: