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    D&D General When We Were Wizards: Review of the Completed Podcast!

    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 wars or purges. It remains my best job experience to this day, looking back! Despite the rancor so many of us felt at the time. Hey, I figured out how to make a...
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    D&D General When We Were Wizards: Review of the Completed Podcast!

    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. So you can guess how much I took home after taxes and Soc Sec. I can't post the image here because of SS number.
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    D&D General When We Were Wizards: Review of the Completed Podcast!

    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 "work for hire" statements as a condition of employment). That's news to me, reading over this topic. I think we sort of assumed as a president of the company, his...
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    D&D General When We Were Wizards: Review of the Completed Podcast!

    When two Chaotic Neutrals meet, bad things will happen.
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    D&D General When We Were Wizards: Review of the Completed Podcast!

    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 (Product development) wing. We are being paid by the hour, something like three or four bucks (if that) and the stock was priced something like $600/share. I...
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    D&D General When We Were Wizards: Review of the Completed Podcast!

    I recall that Rose Estes hand-made the Bolotomus soft toys that were available in very limited numbers back in 1980-81. At least, I think it was her. I wish I still had mine! Sold it for pennies, basically, in 1998. If only I'd held onto so many items that are now high-dollar collectibles. Like...
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    Looking for something new

    My memory of Icebergs was that the prototype (Tom's handmade original) was a lot of fun and I wasn't sure how it was going to be cut down and still be as playable. The final game came out after my time at TSR and I never had the heart to play it. Disappointing to hear that it doesn't seem to...
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    Looking for something new

    Hola! Some responses and further chit-chat: My recollection is that the Golden Unicorn was found, altho' not as quickly as the Silver Dragon. I felt at the time these were both just silly gimmicks. Garnered some publicity, but was it worth it in the long run, and could you sustain a line of...
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