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<blockquote data-quote="Stormonu" data-source="post: 5350933" data-attributes="member: 52734">Just some information to throw out, this is summarized from &quot;The History of TSR&quot; from the Silver Anniversary set:1978-1982&nbsp; TSR sales double every year (sometimes twice in a year).&nbsp; In 1982, TSR rakes in $20M sales1983-1986 TSR begins its biannual layoff to keep multi-million $$ debt from sinking the company1987 TSR posts its first profit of $1M since 1983.1987-1994 TSR continues to float.1995+ TSR starts to witherClearly, a lot of steam was lost after 1982.&nbsp; Though obviously the company made some horrible decisions in 1983, sales apparently never got back up to the boom back in '82.I don't have any information about how 3E fared compared to those previous years, but from my own personal experience, the first two years of 3E was the first time since about '95 or '96 I had even seen a D&amp;D game at our local Con (White Wolf's Vampire game wounded D&amp;D down here - making those who played D&amp;D pariahs, then once MtG started gathering speed, D&amp;D up and died until 3E.&nbsp; Once 3.5 came out, I haven't seen a D&amp;D game at our local Cons since then).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Stormonu, post: 5350933, member: 52734"] Just some information to throw out, this is summarized from "The History of TSR" from the Silver Anniversary set: 1978-1982 TSR sales double every year (sometimes twice in a year). In 1982, TSR rakes in $20M sales 1983-1986 TSR begins its biannual layoff to keep multi-million $$ debt from sinking the company 1987 TSR posts its first profit of $1M since 1983. 1987-1994 TSR continues to float. 1995+ TSR starts to wither Clearly, a lot of steam was lost after 1982. Though obviously the company made some horrible decisions in 1983, sales apparently never got back up to the boom back in '82. I don't have any information about how 3E fared compared to those previous years, but from my own personal experience, the first two years of 3E was the first time since about '95 or '96 I had even seen a D&D game at our local Con (White Wolf's Vampire game wounded D&D down here - making those who played D&D pariahs, then once MtG started gathering speed, D&D up and died until 3E. Once 3.5 came out, I haven't seen a D&D game at our local Cons since then). [/QUOTE]

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