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<blockquote data-quote="Kinak" data-source="post: 6348724" data-attributes="member: 6694112">Unfortunately, it's not so clear cut as that. It's not as though Gygax was a masterful businessman, but TSR didn't collapse until after a decade of being run by business outsiders.And most of the terrible decisions we're mocking them for (Dragon Dice, Spellfire, Blood War, the movie rights, the setting explosion, the huge backstock, and not recognizing these problems) were made after Gygax left. It wasn't a &quot;labor of love&quot; decision to try and jump on the CCG bandwagon. It was a mistake, sure, but not one driven out of love for the hobby.At the end of the day, managers are just people. Whether they're motivated by love for the game or profit for the shareholders, they're going to make some stupid decisions.I can't speak for everyone, but it was pretty easy for us to avoid &quot;bloat.&quot; We just ignored the brown books and never had any problems.We were too busy spending our allowances on setting books anyway <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Cheers!Kinak</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kinak, post: 6348724, member: 6694112"] Unfortunately, it's not so clear cut as that. It's not as though Gygax was a masterful businessman, but TSR didn't collapse until after a decade of being run by business outsiders. And most of the terrible decisions we're mocking them for (Dragon Dice, Spellfire, Blood War, the movie rights, the setting explosion, the huge backstock, and not recognizing these problems) were made after Gygax left. It wasn't a "labor of love" decision to try and jump on the CCG bandwagon. It was a mistake, sure, but not one driven out of love for the hobby. At the end of the day, managers are just people. Whether they're motivated by love for the game or profit for the shareholders, they're going to make some stupid decisions. I can't speak for everyone, but it was pretty easy for us to avoid "bloat." We just ignored the brown books and never had any problems. We were too busy spending our allowances on setting books anyway ;) Cheers! Kinak [/QUOTE]

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