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That's tended to be overstated, in my experience, but there were some specific problems. The company definitely published too many...

That ends up being a lot like overprinting some products or adding products to the schedule to game the RH deal—get money on ship faster...

@JLowder thanks for chiming in. I suppose with the insight that you’re providing, it does add some much needed clarity to the...

As someone who has been following discussions on the topic for near 30 years now, but doesn't have any first-hand insight, I often see...

@JLowder thanks for the reply. If no one else thanks you for Jergal, well, thanks.

Right. The context for the book returns matter a lot. They are not the cause of the failure. The returns are a result of the core...

From what I saw, Lorraine and the parts of TSR upper management who had come into the company from "the business world" didn't...

Quite a lot of what you say about Lorraine's tenure at the company is excellent and needs to be said, repeatedly, especially about the...

TSR was very much a trial-by-fire sort of workplace, where you were challenged quickly and expected to step up and learn multiple jobs...

It's great to hear from someone who was there. You're like a living artifact? Did you actually have any qualifications to be an...

Mostly. Rob Kuntz, Jim Ward, and Mike Carr were among those lucky few who got royalty deals before TSR reneged on those or stopped...

In the 80s and 90s there were other companies where you could work full time--West End, GDW, Chaosium, eventually White Wolf, and so on...

Nice catch! From what I read in there it does look like Gary did a lot of travel back and forth between WI and CA; maybe more before he...

One of the constants at TSR, no matter who owned and ran the company, was the inability to deal fairly or constructively with creators...