WOTC is hiring a new Game Designer for D&D
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Sorcerers Apprentice
Hero
Interesting that the position requires skills in both Excel and higher mathematics. Looks like WotC wants to keep the math behind the rules tight in future products.
bedir than
Hero
If someone here gets the gig please reach out. I've got a nice 40 year history in Renton that can tell you all the neat things to do
GMMichael
Guide of Modos
That was "algebra or higher," actually. I'd expect them to list statistics or probability skills as a requirement. And Excel helps with a lot more than just math.
"Three previous products" are required. Looks like I'm not moving to Washington anytime soon...
Inchoroi
Adventurer
That was "algebra or higher," actually. I'd expect them to list statistics or probability skills as a requirement. And Excel helps with a lot more than just math.
"Three previous products" are required. Looks like I'm not moving to Washington anytime soon...
Nor me. I only just started writing stuff for games and having some of it published, and they're not even wholly my projects...
A man can dream, though...
A man can dream.
EDIT: Huh. It says "...three product credits;" I wonder if that means that just having my name in a book of stuff would work? Unfortunately, I have no idea what the Chicago Manual of Style is. I'll have to do some research if that's a requirement in the future.
What struck me is that they ask for it twice. They're serious about their style guide.
Parmandur
Book-Friend
That was "algebra or higher," actually. I'd expect them to list statistics or probability skills as a requirement. And Excel helps with a lot more than just math.
"Three previous products" are required. Looks like I'm not moving to Washington anytime soon...
Last time they did this, Mearls stated that DMsGuild products counted, and they are fairly open minded about product credits in general.
Slit518
Adventurer
The Chicago Manual of Style if I am correct is a manual which details ways in writing/describing things, such as a booklet for a lawnmower that tells you how to assemble it.
It is kind of like technical writing, right?
I think so.
Ever notice how their rules are so uniform?
Also, for me to do some work, a guy offering me work said it was a good idea for me to be familiar with it if I wanted to be in this type of business. I think it is because you need to make the rules to the game as concise as possible.
It is kind of like technical writing, right?
I think so.
Ever notice how their rules are so uniform?
Also, for me to do some work, a guy offering me work said it was a good idea for me to be familiar with it if I wanted to be in this type of business. I think it is because you need to make the rules to the game as concise as possible.
Slit518
Adventurer
Not to double post, but does that mean self published products as well? If that is the case, puft, I can crap out crap!
Note, it also mentions editing somebody else's work and it getting published.
Yes, but they’ll look at it.
Slit518
Adventurer
How does things you can't talk about work?
Like let's say you did some work for Warner Brothers (which I didn't), but you have an NDA until the product is revealed.
And in that product you have some credits.
How does that work?!?
Parmandur
Book-Friend
The Chicago Manual is also pretty standard for some academic writing. Industry standard. "Must be able to write professionally and be numerate" seems a fair standard yo be on the D&D team.
Srlf- publishing might be sufficient, if the work itself impresses Mearls & Co. or you were able to make a functioning company around it.
There aren’t rules. The person who is hiring will look at your resume and decide if they want to interview you. If they interview you, they’ll then decide if they want to hire you. You can’t rules-lawyer it or get them to hire you on a technicality.
I feel weird explaining the concept of a job application to somebody.
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Jester David
Hero
Well, they’ll ask what you did work on. If you can’t discus due to NDA, they’ll ask for a reference and contact your employer to see what they can say.
But, generally, if you legally can’t talk about something, you should leave that off your resume.
Jester David
Hero
Given how many people here seem to be experts at game design and able to write better rules than Mearls and Crawford in their sleeep, I expect whoever gets the job to be a regular poster...
Slit518
Adventurer
No, I am not young.
I just figured they would need examples of such things, but something attached to an NDA for example does not have examples.
But Jester David explains it better in a below response.
Is it normal to not list a salary range in this kind of job advert? Seems odd to me.
Talking of which...
How many regular posters here get paid less than Mearls & Crawford?
Talking of which...
How many regular posters here get paid less than Mearls & Crawford?
Jester David
Hero
Does it matter?How many regular posters here get paid less than Mearls & Crawford?
If you get to go to a job every day with cool people and work on a game you love and make products that make people happy, why does any wage above "livable" matter?
Some people like having families, children...
