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I'll make time this week. I'm fairly equanimous (Oops, that's not a word!) about it all by now. I wasn't there for the later civil...

Yeah, not only was he bring two-faced about royalties, but his royalties came close to destroying the conpany. Podcast is pretty...

Heh! I dug up a copy of my first TSR weekly paycheck from May 1980. I was making $3.60/hour and punched in for 37 hours that first week...

I don't think any of the Product Development staff knew that Gary was being paid royalties while we were denied them (having to sign...

Obvious to you and me and obvious to a woman who literally came from a family fortune founded on Buck Rogers IP, and who really didn't...

Which we may never know unless someone finds some record of the deal. Still, the full number of products released by TSR for Buck Rogers...

I think it’s highly questionable how lucrative Buck Rogers the TV show was. It was conceived right in that time following Star Wars when...

When two Chaotic Neutrals meet, bad things will happen.

We tend to hold Williams to a higher standard than we do good old Gygax, but yes, she engaged in some serious skullduggery to take...

The Podcast makes it very clear she directly orchestrated a secret takeover of the company, using directly nefarious means to trick Gary...

TSR offered employees a chance to buy shares of stock during my time there (1980-81) but it was incredibly expensive to us in the design...

Despite having seen Gary Gygax's interview on 60 Minutes, I don't think I ever fully appreciated his efforts to serve as an ambassador...

These will come to be known as the healthy, non-problematic days.

Admittedly, the podcast really only covers the part of the story where Williams is (arguably) at her most sympathetic. And yeah, her...