I simply found that I’ve been faraway from e-book credit on D&D Past for books I labored on whereas at Wizards of the Coast.
Background:
Whereas at Wizards (so after D&D Past was bought) – with quite a few books, my digital content material group and I labored straight with the e-book group on the content material, studying by means of guidelines drafts, suggesting modifications, giving concepts, and catching points. We had a full database of the content material and understood precisely the way it interacted.
On condition that we have been contributing to the content material within the books, I felt it affordable to request that group be added to the credit, however was knowledgeable the credit part was already too crowded with the variety of individuals concerned and lots of the advertising group had already been dropped from credit. I felt strongly that anybody truly contributing to what’s within the printed e-book ought to be credited although, so we agreed a compromise, that the group could be added to the credit web page on D&D Past solely, as there isn’t a difficulty with “not sufficient house” on an online web page.
I’ve added screenshots right here that I had for a number of the books.
Sooner or later lately, these credit pages have been edited to take away the credit for me and the content material group. No one reached out to let me know – it simply occurred sooner or later, and I solely simply observed.
We have even been faraway from the digital-only releases, that solely launched on D&D Past, such because the Spelljammer Academy drops.
I am not indignant or upset, simply but once more, actually disenchanted, as by some means I anticipated higher.
EDIT TO ADD MORE CONTEXT
It isn’t simply getting the books on-line. I labored with Kyle & Dan to enhance the general e-book course of from ideation to supply throughout all mediums (you need to have seen the large course of charts I constructed out…)
The lead designers would ship over the principles for every new rulebook and we would undergo it, give suggestions, spotlight potential steadiness points, have a look at new guidelines/design that was troublesome to implement digitally and recommend tweaks to enhance it and so forth and so forth. We even had concepts for brand new content material that was then included within the e-book.
We would undergo the entire e-book intimately, catching inconsistencies and miscalculations, and I am proud to say that we dramatically lowered the necessity for clarifications or errata on these books.
I am not saying anybody on the design or e-book group was careless – removed from it, they’re consummate professionals – I’m simply illustrating the function my group and I had in contributing to the content material, high quality & success of the bodily books, not to mention the digital variations.
We should always have been within the credit part of the bodily printed e-book. We have been a part of the artistic course of. That was one thing we have been actively discussing after I was knowledgeable I used to be being laid off.
Including the group to the credit pages simply on D&D Past was, as I discussed above, a compromise whereas we figured issues out.
My group have been absolutely credited on the Cortex: Prime and Tales of Xadia books when D&D Past was nonetheless a part of Fandom, earlier than the Wizards acquisition.
In actual fact for these books we made certain to credit score the complete digital improvement group, together with builders, neighborhood managers and so forth – everybody who helped make the e-book profitable.
I do know that Wizards has a whole bunch of individuals concerned and beforehand hit points with the variety of individuals in credit for D&D books, so pulled again from crediting some roles.
Wouldn’t it be so unhealthy to need to dedicate additional house in a e-book to the individuals whose contributions made the e-book profitable?
I actually do not suppose it could.
