Orius
Unrepentant DM Supremacist
rogueattorney said:Quibble all you want about content (and I know many of you will) from 1978 to 1982 TSR's editing was uniformally tight, with consistent, though rarely outstanding, production values. Their stuff was utilitarian, but not flashy.
From 1983 to the point I stopped paying attention to TSR anymore (about 1993) to say the editing was spotty would be an understatement. There were the "pet" projects that obviously got full attention from someone - The 1983 WoG box, I6 Ravenloft, the DL modules, the Gazzetteer series - but the majority of products were throwaways. You saw the same thing with the production values, outstanding in a few isolated cases (the DL series, for example), downright awful most of the time. In my view, basically anything produced after they started having that orange stripe at the top was suspect.
That doesn't surprise me given what was going on with TSR's upper management at that point.