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not just 'a major seller', but the largest boxed set seller TSR ever had. But yes, it definitely was mishandled after EGG was gone. First just ignored after FR was released, then retooled as From the Ashes, which AFAIK was not a great seller. The handful of source books (compared to FR)...

Flight of the Boodles was an amusing game, but there was a 'answers to your many questions' following article that was hysterical....

not sure just how true that is. IIRC, Rigg's book has a chart showing that the WoG boxed set outsold every other boxed set, including FR. But... you have to consider that the FR also included a ton of books, modules, and companion boxed sets as well. Add those all together, and it's likely...

I have to admit, when the 1E boxed set came out, I didn't find the setting all that fantastic, didn't see any real advantages of it over Greyhawk. But when the novels started appearing, it started to pique my interest. And in the 2E days, when it went multicultural with a bang, I really...

I was one of the few people who bought the Maztica set. But I bought all the FR sets. Wish I'd have kept them, just have the 2E FR set left...

it's been decades since I read the book, but yeah, that's how I understood it to mean too. Even so, having a scene where a teenage girl rips her shirt open in the middle of a battle is rather cringeworthy...

does his weekly check in on this thread to see what stupid things NuTSR has done lately, sees a bunch of posts about stick shift vs. automatic transmissions heh. When I took Drivers Ed in HS, our training was on an automatic. But the first car I got, a gift from my parents, was a manual, so I...

it is, but unlike other cursed items, it's not stuck to you; you can toss it if you like. But... it's also a handy garbage disposal. You can use it to get rid of those annoying regenerating troll bits and pieces that are always left over after a fight. And if you're not a nice person, and...

you can have a lot of fun with a Bag of Devouring

this happened a lot back in the early 1E days, when published adventures were still kinda sparse. The only one I recall for me was running through B2, as a fighter/thief in the back of the party. Wanted so bad to warn the others about the pit trap in the kobold lair, but didn't... and everyone...

I dunno, I'd say you were awfully lucky that you didn't summon a demon....

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...