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Thank you! The charts are great and Ben did terrific work putting them together, but often they are better understood with more...

Just a helpful note that there's a master list of all of Riggs' sales graphs over here...

It's interesting to hear about the ebb and flow of managerial styles from the TSR days, and I can't help but compare them to the ebb and...

Cheers. I read an interview once with a contributervto Mindlordsvof the Last Sea. Its been a while though.

This is maybe too long ago or too inside baseball, but I do have a question about the setting, if you don't mind. I'm curious if the...

I don't recall working from a calendar or having to create one in editing because of obvious inconsistencies. If those detailed notes...

Thank you for the response and the work on Dark Sun. It’s one of my favorite settings TSR ever did.

The head of Books after late 92 was not terribly interested in coordinating with Games, and at least some of the authors he brought in...

Makes sense. Prism Pentad was fun to read at least but I didn't like it when it crept into game products. It was also a big shock as...

The plan from the start with Dark Sun was for the RPG and fiction content to be related. Mary Kirchoff, then head of the Book...

Yes, I worked in the Book Department from 1988 to 1994 and was at one time series editor for both the Ravenloft and Realms fiction...

That's only true if you take the most cynical approach possible and the products do not stand alone, if you need to buy the fiction to...

Woo hoo.

Nah, it's just one person defending slimy practices because it's something they do themselves, or wish they could do. It's amazing how...

I guess it all comes down to that some think that everything unfolds following the inevitable and quasi-natural laws of business, so...