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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Brown Jenkin" data-source="post: 4461161" data-attributes="member: 2572">Lorraine Williams is relevant to the point that was being made. That point was that the head of a company doesn't always make the best business decisions. In fact she drove TSR into the ground to the point that WotC was able to buy it. The argument that this point makes by just looking at the history of D&D is that the president of the company in charge of D&D does not always make the best business decisions just because they are in charge of a business. While the current president of the WotC division of Hasbro may be a phenomenal business man, from past experience he may not be as well. We cannot assume from his title alone that he knows what he is doing.Not sure where you are going with this. The second half had absolutely nothing to do do with the conversation. As for Anthony Valterra, once more the point was that just because someone was in charge of D&D doesn't mean that they actually had the best business sense. In this case it was pointing out that unlike Lorainne Williams, this time it was a gamer in charge who did love the game.Now I am entirely lost. WotC bought TSR because Peter Atkinson loved D&D and wanted to save it from the bankruptcy that was TSR at the time. Peter did have some good business sense but then he left the company and Valterra was put in charge of D&D. Valterra as part of WotC/Hasbro also made bad decisions. The point once again was showing a past history of both TSR and WotC making bad decisions to help prove the point that just because someone owns D&D doesn't mean they are making the best decisions about it.As for the lawyers they are probably in no danger. The GSL probably makes up a very small portion of their jobs, which is also likely why it doesn't get done very fast. If WotC is laying off their lawyers then they are in worse shape than I thought.</blockquote>

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