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as a fan of alternate history, I have to imagine "Hey, what if Adkison hired both of them without telling either of them about the other, and put them both on D&D development." Yeah, bad things would have happened, I imagine :)

years after I'd been out of gaming, when I was a manager of a retail store, I overheard one of my cashiers talking about what could only be D&D. When I asked her about it, she said yes and asked if I'd ever played it. I said "Yeah, a long time ago" while thinking "Kid, you have no idea...."

it was news to me, as I generally didn't read some of the odd sources it was noted in before. I had long had the vague idea that TSR was sunk by a combo of generally poor sales, high production costs, and the final nail being the failure of Dragon Dice. StD makes it clear that it was actually...

I don't play either anymore. While I did play D&D a lot way back in the day, I tried MtG once... and just didn't see the appeal of it. For that matter, I just generally don't care for any collectible card game. That's just me though, and I get that a lot of people are passionate about them...

back in 2E days, I think most DMs created varieties of SJ craft, if they used that setting. Mine was the Hydra, an incredibly clumsy ship that had 5 'heads' on the front, all mounted on long 'necks' that moved around. Each head had a ballista mounted in it, and whoever was mounted on the helm...

I'm always amused at the idea of 'one true way to play D&D', considering the lack of clarity in the 1E rules...

OTOH... she went out of her way to help Bill Connors when he was going through a really bad time, keeping him on the payroll when he wasn't able to really do his job. And, regardless of the lack of financial success in the end, she was in charge when TSR was putting out scads of gorgeous...

okay, that game sounds.... not that good. Yeah, whatever EGG's faults, his idea of D&D was a better one...

I haven't been gaming in a long time, but when I was a DM, I treated them more or less as Vikings... raiders who could show up at unexpected times and generally pillage. I even had one batch of them who decided to copy the northmen longboats and took to sea raiding...

probably, I'm vaguely recalling what I read in The Game Wizards. Was AiF the game and AU the company? And have you actually seen this game/read the rules? You'd be the first that I know of who did....

I was thinking that Arneson's idea to Adkison might have been along the lines of AU, considering that it was already (sorta) finished and done by him and was supposedly his idea of 'proper D&D'. I'm not sure I've ever even seen a copy of AU, although I might have passed by it at Gencon one of...

I'm reminded of his "Adventures Unlimited" game, which was apparently supposed to be his idea of 'what D&D should have been." This is one game I'm completely unfamiliar with (not surprising, considering the dismal failure it apparently was). Anyone here ever look at/play AU?

between "Slaying the Dragon" and "Game Wizards", it's painfully obvious that both Arneson and EGG received some substantial amounts of money and seemed to have squandered a lot of it... both were rather happy to be bought out by Adkison when he was looking to clear up the legalities of the D&D...

both Arneson and EGG were unprepared for the stunning success of D&D... and the financial rewards of it all. Neither had any great business skills either. Such a situation was bound to be troublesome...

Game Wizards gives you the idea that Arneson was a great 'idea guy', but really lacked the drive to write and finish products... the book has numerous stories of his failures to finish up stuff. EGG, for all his faults, at least had the drive to complete products....

I think the book said something about him and Stevens having business degrees of some kind.....

finished this book yesterday. The contrast between the somber tone of William's tenure and Adkinson's rescue is extreme. It kinda goggles the mind that WOTC was so well placed with huge stacks of cash to rescue D&D from the creditors, as well as very eager to do so. And his complete...

finished this book yesterday; sad how many of TSR's people (Weis was one of many) were treated so distantly there and left as a result. I'm reminded that I was introduced to Weis at Gencon 1992. I was at one of TSR's booths, talking to Roger Moore about something, and Weis came by carrying a...

haven't gamed in a loooooong time, but... way back in college (1E days), our group was all male, but there were a handful of female PCs in the mix; no one really thought anything about it. My last group (early 2E days) was 4 men/3 women, but all of them pretty much played their own gender.

first time running a game? Not so well. I had those Dungeon Geomorphs and put a bunch of them together to make a huge dungeon stuffed to the gills with monsters and treasure, to the point that the players' eyes started to glaze over with all the slaughter/dice rolling. No real purpose to it...