Layoffs at WotC

[Boric Glanduum]

From [url="http://icv2.com/articles/news/20420.html"]icv2.com[/url]
[quote]Layoffs Hit WotC's 'D&D' Team
Published: 06/25/2011, Last Updated: 06/27/2011 02:19am
Wizards of the Coast has downsized its Dungeons & Dragons creative team. Included in the layoffs was Bill Slavicsek, WotC’s Director of Roleplaying Design and Development, who joined TSR in 1993 after a stint a West End Games where he oversaw the development of West End’s Star Wars RPG. Slavicsek, who wrote the second and third editions of A Guide to the Star Wars Universe, is considered one of the world’s leading Star Wars experts.

In a farewell statement posted on the Wizards Website Slavicsek noted the projects he had worked on since WotC acquired TSR and moved the staff from Lake Geneva to Seattle: “I’ve had the pleasure of working closely with a talented group of creative people over the years, and we accomplished such feats as launching both the 3rd and 4th editions of the D&D roleplaying game, creating d20 Modern and d20 Star Wars, launching painted plastic miniatures for D&D, creating new worlds such as Eberron and the D&D Core World, and most recently launching a new category of D&D board games that started with Castle Ravenloft.â€

[Greylen]

Interesting tidbit. I'd say from the fact of 'clueless jerk' taking over, that the moves were NOT from direction changes requested by users...