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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Eirikrautha" data-source="post: 6493053" data-attributes="member: 6777843">Well, I don't exactly consider the open letter by the new owner desperate to retain the fans of the old owner as an unbiased source.  Especially the favor-currying at the end.  I think it's pretty well established that TSR tried a Hail Mary with its books:"TSR also decided to publish twelve hardcover novels in 1996, despite a previous history of publishing only one or two hardcover novels each year."The remaindered books finally killed them:"When Random House returned an unexpectedly high percentage of unsold stock, the year's inventory of unsold novels and sets of Dragon Dice and charged a fee of several million dollars, TSR found itself in a cash crunch."So I don't think it's unfair to attribute the death partially to the unsold novels (which included FR novels).  Besides, as I pointed out in the original post, I was being humorous in tone.  My point still stands... The Forgotten Realms is hardly a tolkienesque pristine work of literary principle.  It's been compromised more than MI6 in the Bond films...</blockquote>