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Source: https://www.wargamer.com/dnd/comms-chief-greg-tito-quits

Timothy Linward

Published: 2020-09-03

Greg Tito has quit his role as the Dungeons and Dragons communication
manager at Wizards of the Coast, and is now the Deputy Director of
External Affairs for the Washington Secretary of State office in
Olympia, WA. Posting about his move on social media channel Bluesky on
August 30, Tito says rCLit feels good to do something that doesnrCOt just
line the pockets of assholesrCY, later adding rCLsorry, I meant rCyshareholdersrCOrCY.

TitorCOs earliest role in the games industry was as a tabletop RPG
designer for Goodman Games. His career has included stints as the editor
in chief at games website Escapist Magazine, and as a screenwriter. He
joined the Dungeons and Dragons team in February 2015.

Publicly, Tito might be best known for Dragon Talk, an official DnD
podcast that ran until 2023. Fans with longer memories may recall him as
the face of WizardsrCO DnD news streams until 2019.

TitorCOs LinkedIn profile lists a far more corporate range of responsibilities, including rCLoverseeing all messaging for the D&D brand
to increase cultural impact, reduce negative opinion, and drive consumer satisfactionrCY, and rCLresponding to crisesrCY. We have to assume that unforced errors, like WizardsrCO mishandling of the OGL license in 2023,
kept him very busy.

Tito wonrCOt be quitting DnD altogether, though. Writing on LinkedIn, Tito describes his new boss, Washington Secretary of State Steve Hobbs, as rCLa huge D&D fan and big proponent of the tabletop gaming industryrCY. He adds that rCLIrCOve already worked with Steve to bring D&D to libraries and
schools around the staterCY. The two met in 2018 when Hobbs was a guest on Dragon Talk.

This is pure headcanon on our part, but thererCOs something very pleasing about the idea of a government official and their senior staff
discussing the merits of various DnD classes between budget meetings; surreptitiously adding the DnD release schedule to the
cross-departmental calendar; and rCo these being DnD fans rCo getting into fruitless arguments about whether the changes to DnD races in the 2024 PlayerrCOs Handbook are a good or bad thing.

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Author's bio: Timothy Linward Our newest full time staff writer, Tim
Linward is a Warhammer 40k and Horus Heresy fanatic who dabbles in
TTRPGs, board games and MTG. You'll often find him delving through Games Workshop's financial reports for gaming news, combing the indie
wargaming scene for cool new titles, or listening to yet more Warhammer
40k books for deep 40k lore. He's also written for PCGamesN, and
'Grimdark', his book of essays about Warhammer 40k and Games Workshop,
will be published by Strange Attractor Press when it finally emerges
from the warp. His controversial gaming opinion is that the Age of
Sigmar double turn is objectively bad - it gives a single die roll too
much influence over the game state. (He/Him)

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