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Honestly, a huge problem with the 5e playtest was simply that they adamantly refused to settle on a design for two friggin years. They...

This and making sure that D&D was run by business minded people. By the time Ryan Dancy came along the RPG market was changing and...

I was an I recall initially the changes were not well received, at least not like nostalgia implies. No doubt it was successful but WOtC...

Yeah, but I find it quite rude to call the game other people like to play, just a company trying to grub up money. Well, at least it...

Ah, lucky you. I played Magic from day one, pre-ordering it before it was released based on world of mouth. I had an alpha black lotus...

I could wax homeric (simpson) about the 90's, they were very good years. Yes, Gygax getting the boot from TSR made D&D the child of a...

Ugh. the painful flashbacks. I started MTG when it first came out, and played it up until the mid 90s (I was overseas then, and a...

Perspective definitely matters. My friends and I'd been playing M:tG since 1993. It was pretty clear to us that Magic was basically a...

Probably, but maybe TSR would have gone under in 1987 instead of 1997 without her...counterfactuals are murky.

Mr. Dancey's piece is not terribly specific, but he does at least reference the numbers, and the conclusion - that TSR was not really...

I'm sure you don't mean to absolve Gygax' scavengers with the argument "he was so ignorant he practically begged for it", but you do...

I disagree. Corporate structures have been a basic part of running corporations for generations. I can remember, for example, the...

It would be interesting to hear from the TSR side. Both on what, if anything, they think went wrong and life after Wizards took over...

His diagnosis is interesting with how fast 3.5 came out

His diagnosis is interesting, given the subsequent 19 years and multiple editions of history.