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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 “it feels good to do something that doesn’t just 
line the pockets of assholes”, later adding “sorry, I meant ‘shareholders’”.

Tito’s 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 Wizards’ DnD news streams until 2019.

Tito’s LinkedIn profile lists a far more corporate range of 
responsibilities, including “overseeing all messaging for the D&D brand 
to increase cultural impact, reduce negative opinion, and drive consumer 
satisfaction”, and “responding to crises”. We have to assume that 
unforced errors, like Wizards’ mishandling of the OGL license in 2023, 
kept him very busy.

Tito won’t be quitting DnD altogether, though. Writing on LinkedIn, Tito 
describes his new boss, Washington Secretary of State Steve Hobbs, as “a 
huge D&D fan and big proponent of the tabletop gaming industry”. He adds 
that “I’ve already worked with Steve to bring D&D to libraries and 
schools around the state”. The two met in 2018 when Hobbs was a guest on 
Dragon Talk.

This is pure headcanon on our part, but there’s 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 – these being DnD fans – getting into 
fruitless arguments about whether the changes to DnD races in the 2024 
Player’s Handbook are a good or bad thing.

If the Washington State bird changes from an American goldfinch to an 
Aarakocra, we’ll be the first to let you know. You can follow Wargamer 
on Google News to keep up to date with all the latest developments with 
your favorite games.


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)