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<blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 8403601" data-attributes="member: 82106">Yeah, I have to say that we were all pretty blown away. When I HEARD about the idea of D&amp;D (I think I was 11 or 12, but I loved wargames already back then) it was like a bolt of lightning struck. THIS IS IT! It actually took a couple years to get hold of enough of the rules and people to play regularly (the big kids would have none of us, we got to play with them once, when our Boy Scout leader told them they weren't allowed to leave people out, lol). Once we got started it was pretty cool.In terms of who got what out of the whole TSR thing... I got involved with some game development in the late 70s, and got to know some of the Game Science, and Metagaming/Steve Jackson guys and soon learned, there's no money in this! I mean, we were simply utterly thrilled if someone used our stuff at all. I remember writing a space combat game that MANY people played for years, and we even hacked together RPG rules and whatnot, but who ever made a dime off that, really? I guess my point is, your brother was probably just thrilled at the time that his awesome monster was all over the game and got used a lot. I doubt he even imagined there would be money involved in any significant quantity. But that's just my guess, maybe things were different in Lake Geneva. Gary certainly operated at a bit different level from everyone else, lol.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="AbdulAlhazred, post: 8403601, member: 82106"] Yeah, I have to say that we were all pretty blown away. When I HEARD about the idea of D&D (I think I was 11 or 12, but I loved wargames already back then) it was like a bolt of lightning struck. THIS IS IT! It actually took a couple years to get hold of enough of the rules and people to play regularly (the big kids would have none of us, we got to play with them once, when our Boy Scout leader told them they weren't allowed to leave people out, lol). Once we got started it was pretty cool. In terms of who got what out of the whole TSR thing... I got involved with some game development in the late 70s, and got to know some of the Game Science, and Metagaming/Steve Jackson guys and soon learned, there's no money in this! I mean, we were simply utterly thrilled if someone used our stuff at all. I remember writing a space combat game that MANY people played for years, and we even hacked together RPG rules and whatnot, but who ever made a dime off that, really? I guess my point is, your brother was probably just thrilled at the time that his awesome monster was all over the game and got used a lot. I doubt he even imagined there would be money involved in any significant quantity. But that's just my guess, maybe things were different in Lake Geneva. Gary certainly operated at a bit different level from everyone else, lol. [/QUOTE]

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