ICv2 spoke with Greed Leeds about the future of Dungeons & Dragons and specifically the rumor that the Dungeons & Dragons brand is in trouble after reductions in staff and a cutback on releases. Leeds denied that there are any problems.
We have had some long time staff leave, a couple of people, but we haven’t reduced the overall number of people working on D&D. We are constantly adjusting and tweaking our organization. I think that any healthy organization has some amount of movement. With Dungeons & Dragons, because of that direct personal relationship that our staff has with the gaming community, our ultimate customers, when someone changes it’s far more noticeable than it is in many other businesses. But, I can tell you that in my 20 years of management experience I don’t think that I have seen an organization more stable over a period of 15 years than we have had in Wizards of the Coast or D&D. You take the average tenure of our employees working on D&D and it’s extremely high. We will have and have had occasional turnover, but D&D is a healthy, thriving business on the role-playing side and will continue to be.
When asked about the possibility of bringing back 1st-edition products, Leeds replied:
We will always be looking for that, but at this point we have nothing to announce along those lines.
Leeds mentioned he was most excited about the Neverwinter cross-channel launch, a topic I spoke with Laura Tommervik about at Gen Con.
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