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JJLowder reacted to TiQuinn's post in the thread D&D General The First Demise of TSR: Gygax's Folly with
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I definitely remember this - as kids who didn't always have regular D&D games, that fiction was a connection that we still had to it. A... -
JJLowder reacted to Mannahnin's post in the thread D&D General The First Demise of TSR: Gygax's Folly with Like.
In '82? Absolutely not. Gary didn't (edit, correction) move into the mansion for another year, and he didn't hire Lorraine until '85...
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JJLowder reacted to MGibster's post in the thread D&D General The First Demise of TSR: Gygax's Folly with Like.
The only D&D novels I read were a few of the Ravenloft ones, but, man, I sure remember seeing those novels at B. Dalton, Waldenbooks...
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JJLowder reacted to Sacrosanct's post in the thread D&D General The First Demise of TSR: Gygax's Folly with Like.
I can believe it. Going back to late 80s me, and I only knew of a handful of non-D&D fantasy authors, and most of them were for books...
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JJLowder reacted to Guest 85555's post in the thread D&D General Introduction in the 1978 1st Edition AD&D Player's Handbook with Like.
People like James Lowder have commented on this and I believe pushed back on it a bit. Could be misremembering what he said though. I...
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JJLowder replied to the thread D&D General Introduction in the 1978 1st Edition AD&D Player's Handbook.Pretty much everyone in TSR's Game Department played not only TSR's games but hobby games from other companies. If you mentioned in the...
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JJLowder reacted to Warpiglet-7's post in the thread D&D General The First Demise of TSR: Gygax's Folly with Like.
I am a big Gygax fan generally. But am so glad D&D survived to the present. Like 5e…but am most grateful it is not “the end.” It...
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JJLowder replied to the thread D&D General The First Demise of TSR: Gygax's Folly.Most folks don't remember or maybe just don't know how stunning the growth of TSR's fiction program was in the late 1980s and early...
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JJLowder replied to the thread D&D General The First Demise of TSR: Gygax's Folly.The fiction line suffered some bloat in the mid-1990s, to be sure, like all the company lines, and TSR would have done better with...