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They're probably looking for a jr. exec from Hasbro or similar, doesn't have to be an actual RPG company.
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There's even a chance that they're not looking for anybody, but as an equal opportunity employer you've got to make sure you post a listing before you hire the white guy you had in mind.
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We believe diversity of experience is fundamental to formulating accessible and fun gaming experiences for all of our players.
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CitizenKeen posted:There's even a chance that they're not looking for anybody, but as an equal opportunity employer you've got to make sure you post a listing before you hire the white guy you had in mind. It's probably this, chances are they already have a candidate in mind. I don't think it's Mearls' job though? He's lead designer or editor or something.
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Aug 20, 2020 21:36
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Yeah they're looking for a businessperson, not a game designer.
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Aug 20, 2020 21:38
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Angrymog posted:Is that Mearl's job? Mearls was, at one point, and probably now, "Lead Designer". This guy probably isn't even his boss, it's probably his bosses boss.
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DalaranJ posted:Mearls was, at one point, and probably now, "Lead Designer". This guy probably isn't even his boss, it's probably his bosses boss. So, here's a loose org chart of current D&D Staff:
Nathan Stewart was the previous VP and got promoted, so you're probably talking about someone just above Winniger, which is like... probably still 2-3 steps above Mearls. Toshimo fucked around with this message at 01:07 on Aug 21, 2020 |
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Toshimo posted:So, here's a loose org chart of current D&D Staff: Sadly, Kate Welch is no longer with WotC. https://twitter.com/katewelchhhh/status/1294450991673167872?s=19 Edit: that's not a tweet from someone who planned leaving their job. Eastmabl fucked around with this message at 00:25 on Aug 21, 2020 |
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moths posted:Has D&D ever even had ten consecutive years of being managed? I'm pretty sure D&D hasn't ever had ten consecutive minutes of being managed.
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Eastmabl posted:Sadly, Kate Welch is no longer with WotC. Welp, I'm a week behind.
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Step 1 in fixing WOTC D&D's diversity problem: lay off the woman.
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admanb posted:Step 1 in fixing WOTC D&D's diversity problem: lay off the woman. That, or she left a very hostile situation.
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dwarf74 posted:Who wants to be the VP of D&D? I will bear this burden.
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Aug 21, 2020 11:59
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Sorry but you didn’t take Skill Focus: Bearing the Burden
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whydirt posted:Sorry but you didn’t take Skill Focus: Bearing the Burden god DAMNIT
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https://twitter.com/mustangsart/status/1297923818636402689?s=21 The combat wheelchair designer is apparently going to make something for Paizo. Also, she’s not too happy with WotC, but who is?
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thetoughestbean posted:https://twitter.com/mustangsart/status/1297923818636402689?s=21 I agree that WotC could, as always, do much better if they even tried a little bit, but I think the designer is arguing against something that the other tweeter didn’t say. He was talking about the length of the text, not how long it takes to prepare the content. I don’t know why a 2-page spread is implausible for this sort of thing, mind you.
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Subjunctive posted:I agree that WotC could, as always, do much better if they even tried a little bit, but I think the designer is arguing against something that the other tweeter didn’t say. He was talking about the length of the text, not how long it takes to prepare the content. She might be but also that guy’s some rando paternalistically talking down to her so I don’t think he deserves a decent response anyways
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thetoughestbean posted:She might be but also that guy’s some rando paternalistically talking down to her so I don’t think he deserves a decent response anyways Oh, I didn’t know if he was Someone, since I am bad at staying current with the dramatis personae of this industry. If he’s just sniping then yeah, gently caress that guy.
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"If you can make your thing take up a small amount of space so it's easy to slip in to whatever goes to print next for diversity points then maybe you'll get taken seriously"
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Glad to hear Paizo is doing this. I don't expect them to turn into a decent corporation (as decent as a corporation can be, at least) overnight, but it's a good first step.
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I’m all in favor of brevity in RPG rules, but that’s orthogonal to putting in accessibility material.
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“Ugh, you need to keep your rules short.” I say in a discussion explicitly about 5e D&D and 2e Pathfinder.
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Paizo already had basic rules for a normal wheelchair, so putting in a magic version seems like just par for the course.DalaranJ posted:“Ugh, you need to keep your rules short.” I say in a discussion explicitly about 5e D&D and 2e Pathfinder. For Pathfinder 2e, it's really about efficiency, not length. The rule book is huge, but they put a lot of effort into making any individual ability or magic item about as concise as it can get without being totally unevocative. With that said, having looked at the combat wheelchair writeup, there are a ton of places where, if writing it for PF2, a good technical editor could crunch the mechanics down a lot without losing anything, mainly because it's written in the rambling 5e style but also because 5e is just straight-up missing a lot of generic mechanics it could otherwise use. Roadie fucked around with this message at 20:40 on Aug 26, 2020 |
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paradoxGentleman posted:Glad to hear Paizo is doing this. I don't expect them to turn into a decent corporation (as decent as a corporation can be, at least) overnight, but it's a good first step. Interestingly enough, it looks like only a portion of Paizo is a corporation (and only since 2014). Its publishing arm is an LLC.
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Leperflesh posted:LLC stands for Limited Liability Corporation LLC stands for "limited liability company." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limited_liability_company?wprov=sfla1
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It depends on the state, you loving goons.
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nope Eastmabl is correct and I was dead wrong. LLCs are not corporations. Gonna leave that embarrassing evidence of correcting someone incorrectly up there for all to see.
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Me, walking a beautifully gift wrapped ticking box up to the thread: That pledge Wizards of the Coast made to be less lovely about race looks like it's being followed up on in Tasha's Cauldron of Everything: https://www.reddit.com/r/dndleaks/comments/ifwgvl/everything_we_know_about_tashas_cauldron_of/ They're producing a variant rule system called "The Lineage system" quote:New Lineage System allows new customization of characters, including ability score modifiers, disentangling personal traits from cultural traits I don't see any recent updates to the Adventurer's League rules around the PHB+1 limitation that might kneecap this, but maybe they're waiting for it to release before they change anything? I know in the current rules the racial variant rules are permitted separately from the full supplement restrictions. quote:Step 1: Choose a Race and Class
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Having to create arcane combination limitations for official play because you can't be bothered to balance your stuff is like, peak 5E.
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Nuns with Guns posted:Me, walking a beautifully gift wrapped ticking box up to the thread: This would, presumably, be in the same wheelhouse as the variant human/half-elf/tiefling traits. But yeah, Adventurer's league seems to be purpose built so that you can't make something too fun.
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Ultiville posted:Having to create arcane combination limitations for official play because you can't be bothered to balance your stuff is like, peak 5E. That's not why PHB+1 exists.
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Toshimo posted:That's not why PHB+1 exists. It is the only reason it exists And honestly Tasha's, like a bunch of stuff, probably just won't make it to AL
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Darwinism posted:It is the only reason it exists Tasha's will almost assuredly be in AL. They are specifically reprinting stuff from other books that aren't AL legal. The only sourcebook stuff that isn't AL legal is books from "outside" sources. Ravnica, Theros, Wildemount. Which are the only sourcebooks with character options they've been releasing recently until Tasha's If you are in an Eberron AL game you can use the Eberron book.
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Toshimo posted:That's not why PHB+1 exists. Yes it is (it's certainly not to cut down on how many books the DM has to know, because there's nothing stopping everyone from using a different +1 and they probably will use most of the books)
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PHB+1 exists to make entry easier by making it so that players don't feel pressured by splat creep. That's always been the case. I don't know where you guys got the wrong idea from, but this ain't it, boss.
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Toshimo posted:PHB+1 exists to make entry easier by making it so that players don't feel pressured by splat creep. That's always been the case. I don't know where you guys got the wrong idea from, but this ain't it, boss. Presumably WotC publishes books to get people to buy them, that is literally against WotC's financial interest. So I gotta say, I am pretty skeptical of that reasoning.
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Capfalcon posted:Presumably WotC publishes books to get people to buy them, that is literally against WotC's financial interest. So I gotta say, I am pretty skeptical of that reasoning. The AL admins have said this multiple times. AL is an entry point. They don't have a full setup like PFS because they expect you to use AL as a jumping-off point to get into homebrew. So, they make it simple and easy to get into. Getting into PFS1 was daunting and almost hostile because splat creep was so bad. Vets would tell you to get a character builder, map out a plan, then buy the 4-6 splats you needed to make that happen, and PFS was abundantly clear that you needed to be able to show proof-of-purchase at any time. So, if you wanted to play something complex, you could be looking at a stack of books over $100. AL specifically wanted to juxtapose them to that, so they made it so (a) you never needed more than 2 books and (b) you didn't actually need any books, because proof-of-purchase wasn't required. Just borrow your friend's book. The whole "people need to buy books" argument falls immediately apart when you get to the part where they don't require ownership of books to play.
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Toshimo posted:The AL admins have said this multiple times. Except then the "it's so you don't have to buy a bunch of books" reasoning for the rule falls apart because they don't require ownership of books to play.
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