Recent content by PHATsakk43

I think this gets to a good point. It doesn’t seem that TSR was loosing out on the IP side, but on the publishing and distribution side. To be honest, I posted a while back that had the company focused on a few core products in the game sphere and instead focused their efforts on the...

GDW was hit because while D&D wasn’t a path way to devil worship, it was the gateway drug to TTRPGs.

I can attest that D&D was absolutely equated with Satanism when I was getting into the game in the late 1980s and early 1990s. I hid my copy of B/X Basic books with their covers torn off in folders with my Playboy stash, and was actually far more afraid of my guardians finding D&D stuff than...

If I were to assign alignment, I’d give it a solid Lawful-Neutral. I’ve never had any issues there, but it’s not a place I felt particularly comfortable. It seems well moderated and ran. Definitely not anything personally against DF. I just personally like the “vibe” at enworld, rpg.net, &...

Being wrong doesn’t mean that those who are angry for a logical fallacy don’t stop being angry when it’s pointed out. People have been righteously indignant before social media.

It’s weird, I honestly can remember when the internet was basically just game, car, firearm, & computer “fandoms” for a lack of a better term. Social media actually did more damage than anything to those forums. I’ve gotten out of the “official” social media and went back to the boards in the...

As a greasemonkey who was involved in many Web 1.0 & 2.0 car forums, the hostility towards people posting a question that had already been asked was very intense. Bumping and thread-necro was likewise a good way to get banned or booted. I’ve only recently gotten into general TTRPG forums with...

Given some of the things that Gary was responding to, I also have gained some sympathy for his latter position. There was, for instance an open letter suggesting that TSR was ripping off the gaming community by selling “75¢ worth of Xeroxed copy for $10.” Then suggesting that everyone should...

Yeah, one of the biggest takeaways I got from reading through some of the Alarums & Excursions back-and-forths between Gary and others was how much contempt there was even then. It seemed like it was still a minority, but there was obviously a vocal one that didn’t really want someone in Geneva...

Help? Seriously, like she was a board member, shareholder, and a company officer. She knew what was going on and that Gary was not able to get the Blume's out, because neither he personally, nor the credit of TSR was able to meet the Blume's demands. Even in with the most generous story in...

Welp, I think it’s time to wrap it up folks.

You should find some grass to touch. This isn’t this important. We’re discussing a b-list celebrity heiress and a game company founder’s business acumen.

It was part of the end of TSR which had been trying to boost sales to players as opposed to DMs which never really materialized. The thought was that for every DM there are a couple players out there that should be marketed to as well. Thing is, the standard 90/10 rule for business doesn't seem...

Well, finding these reprinted snippets by Gary Gygax from A&E has been extremely fun to read through. I think it also sheds a good bit of light on what we've all been discussing in these past few pages (I plan to get another 'chapter' of Brozer out in the next day or so). Another one I found...

I'd say that many would suggest that your take is biased.