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we've got more big TTRPG news just
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yesterday I did a video about Chris
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Perkins and Jeremy Crawford joining the
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Daggerheart team at Darington Press not
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long after I made that video we got news
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that Todd Kenrich had been laid off from
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Wizards of the Coast todd Kenrich was
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their senior marketing director you
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probably recognize him as the guy
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conducting the interview videos for all
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of Wizards of the Coast releases he's
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been all over their social media for
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like 2 years now and he's basically been
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the face of their marketing efforts um
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Wizards stopped doing big release events
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back uh early 2020 precoid and basically
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since then it's been nothing but Todd
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Kenrich doing those social media videos
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so he's been a huge marketing presence
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for the company and to see him laid off
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as a surprise like that seems huge and
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then not long after that the VP of
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Dungeons and Dragons uh resigned like
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this one seems like it was her own
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choice and she's moving on to a
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different opportunity but the fact that
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they're hemorrhaging senior leadership
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like this is really really alarming for
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Dn D wizards of the Coast is basically
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the only part of Hasbro that's actually
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making them money and the fact that
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Hasbro keeps forcing layoffs and that
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senior talent keeps leaving this does
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not bode well for Wizards of the Coast i
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have to imagine the next couple of years
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are going to be really really rough for
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the company they're going to have a
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really hard time attracting and
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retaining talent considering layoffs
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seem to just come constantly two to
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three times a year and at random and
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they're just Yeah like I would not want
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to work there if I was an employee at
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Wizards of the Coast I would be hunting
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jobs right now um as it stands like
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their most senior designers are gone and
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they haven't been able to replace them
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and uh at the very least they haven't
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promoted anybody to fill Crawford and
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Perkins's roles um I don't know who's
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left at the marketing department after
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Kenrich is out um I know the previous
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round of layoffs we've lost Dixon Dubau
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who's a huge presence in the community
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after the OGL fiasco so yeah like who's
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left who's leading the ship who's
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plotting the course i don't know i don't
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know where we're going to be in a couple
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of years i don't know where D and D is
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headed but Wizards of the Coast is
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probably for a rough couple of
