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Yes, he was. Gary was in California working on movie deals and got the cartoon made. He was not in day to day running of TSR. As far as I know it was the Blume brothers & Lorraine Williams. Many people felt Lorraine was more organized for sure but few people spoke well of her. She often picked...

I wonder if people will speculate that Chaosim will soon be going under now that Mearls is gone? Will Mike make a post about how COC is no longer cool? 🤔

It is very important to get the facts correct. Was Gygax a poor manager. Yes. Was Lorraine Williams a worse manager? IMHO, yes. She obviously did not understand the product line, mismanaged it and contributed nothing but cash. The utter failure led to the collapse and near disappearance of the...

What are you even talking about? You ask me to certify facts when you don't post any in your rebuttal makes zero sense. All you can say is see OP. That adds zero to the conversation.

I have read the recent books and also pat interviews from many people involved. Gary was long fone around 1982 as he was in Hollywood trying to get media deals done. He got the cartoon. The Blumes were involved with day to day operations once their father died. Their father was the main investor...

No, my point is that you ignore the history. She was brought in as an investor yes. She backstabbed Gary by conspiring with the Blumes. They were all terrible at business but Lorraine was more like the Blume brothers. Just an outright bad manager and owner. Gygax at least had the creative spark...

Because you are not following the actual timeline. Gygax was removed in 1985. TSR was sold to WOTc in 1997 to avoid bankruptcy. That is 12 years of leadership under Williams with zero involvement of Gygax. The failure of management and the insolvency is due to her poor management. Blame Gygax...

Dude, those sources are incredibly biased against Gygax. Lorraine Williams only became involved with TSR due to Gary’s involvement with her brother while creating the D&D Saturday morning cartoon. That is a fact. It’s also a fact that she pushed a dead game like called Buck Roger’s that no one...

You have no idea what you are talking about. Lorraine Williams had nothing to do with the gaming hobby and often mocked Gygax. She was only involved because her brother mentioned her as a possible investor to Gygax while they were working on the D&D cartoon together.

Gary was terrible at business as were the Blumes. That is true. Lorraine Williams only became part of TSR because Gary was in Hollywood trying to get a D&D movie made. He was working with Frank Dillie. Lorraine is Frank’s brother and he introduced Gary to Lorraine. Lorraine did some shady stuff...

Resistance and immunity should go the way of the dodo. There is no reason o have them when weapon resistances and immunity are no longer a thing. A monk’s fist generating force damage is laughable.

My most memorable movie experience as a kid was seeing Star Wars when it first hit theaters in the 70’s. I was totally blown away. As an adult it was the scene in total recall when Arnold tells Hauser I the video that it was all a set up. He was duped and bad Arnold wanted his body back. It was...

I remember the original City State of the Invincible Overlord. It wasn’t that great. The prototype of the major city. It was Waterdeep before Waterdeep was a thing. I certainly won’t back it now and my opinion of Goodman’s Games has nosedived.

I like that the new ranger subclass doubles down on Hunter’s Mark. It almost feels like trolling by WOTC.

Crits are 5% chance. People make fun of champion fighters who crit 15% of the time as not worth the investment. Sure if you white room chromatic orb you can come up with a number of excuses but most fall flat. Bless cast on a sorcerer can help slightly. Bardic die is almost worthless since it...

Again, I am skeptical of your analysis. Fireball hits more targets period. For you to get the extra damage and bounces you have are demonstrating, you have to upcast Chromatic Orb. Are you upcasting fireball to get similar results? I.E a 5th level chromatic orb is . 7D8 damage vs a 5th level...

I don’t buy this simply because the possibility exists you can miss at any moment with chromatic orb and the chain is ruined. A similar claim might be made for evasion but that is mostly a PC power that I haven’t seen in monsters yet. The only way fireball is stopped is with monster immunity to...

That makes sense. Much of D&D traffic is on D&D Beyond and they were tinkering with game rules for DM Guide and Monster Manual weeks before launch. You can’t do that if you have a massive print run overseas due to logistical reasons. I find it a bit amusing that all of the WOTC haters...