TSR Just when you thought it was all over.... now there’s a fourth TSR!

In the story that will never end, after having this week turned itself into Wonderfilled, Inc, and deleted its Twitter account, TSR is BACK AGAIN! Like again, again, again, again. Complete with old-school logo! And Michael appears to actually exist!

Michael K. Hovermale says in a press release that an unnamed individual (I’m guessing Stephen Dinehart) apparently ran all the social media accounts for TSR, Dungeon Hobby Shop Museum, Ernie Gygax, Justin LaNasa, and Giantlands. He goes on to say that this person has been replaced, and that all posts on those social media accounts are "invalid". There's no mention of Stephen Dinehart's social media accounts though.

Dinehart has left TSR3, taking Giantlands with him. Given that Star Frontiers mentions have been quietly removed a week or so ago, that would leave TSR3.5 without any roleplaying game products, as far as I can tell.

The existing (TSR3} website still says it's WONDERFILED (sic), Inc. However there’s now a NEW one at TSR Hobbies. We’ll call that TSR3.5 for now. I’m struggling to distinguish TSRs from tribbles at this point. They just keep on coming!

TSR - TSR3 Throws In Towel, Rebrands Wonderfilled

In the news story that never ends, after reversing its position earlier and admitting that it was NOT the original TSR reincarnated, the new TSR company, embroiled in acrimony for the last two weeks, and having blamed the widespread criticism it has received on Wizards of the Coast, has deleted...

www.enworld.org

I don't really know what to say anymore, but my job is to report the news. So here's the news.

TSR Appoints New Public Relations Officer; Responds to Social Media Mismanagement - PR.com

TSR has replaced the individual that was serving as both social media manager and information technology manager for TSR and The Dungeon Hobby Shop Museum.

www.pr.com

TSR Appoints New Public Relations Officer; Responds to Social Media Mismanagement​

Lake Geneva, WI, July 09, 2021 --(PR.com)-- TSR has replaced the individual that was serving as both social media manager and information technology manager for TSR and The Dungeon Hobby Shop Museum. This individual was also the social media manager for Giantlands, Justin LaNasa, and Ernie Gygax.

All posts on all social media accounts for TSR and Dungeon Hobby Shop Museum should be considered invalid.

All posts on all social media accounts of Justin LaNasa and Ernie Gygax should be considered invalid.

TSR is in the process of recovering the social media accounts of TSR, The Dungeon Hobby Shop Museum, and the personal Twitter accounts of Justin LaNasa and Ernie Gygax.

Michael K. Hovermale
Public Relations Officer
TSR

Ernie Gygax:
“I wish to speak directly to the transgender community regarding this incident. The individual who was speaking to you on Twitter does not represent me or TSR in any way. Trans people are always welcome to play with us. Everyone is welcome at our table.”
Contact
TSR LLC
Michael K. Hovermale PR Officer
(209) 819-7504

 

[Stephen Shomo]

50% of the OSR crowd has learned nothing and has forgotten nothing.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Chariot of Sustarre arguably makes more sense as a magic item, similar to a wondrous figure.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

From that list, only Sustarre and Serten are no longer in the 5e spell list! Bring back Systarre and Serten!

The only thing I'm serten of is that it's weird that Chariot of Sustarre wasn't a druid spell ....

 

[darjr]

Some good examples there and one objective one we can measure. Tim Kask got his "most number of views ever" and it's....5000 views. In a hobby of 20 million.

The OSR facebook group is so small it doesn't even show up on the first page of search results for that topic.

If Matt Colville talked about it, I cannot find it on either of his channels as a topic. Slyflourish talked about it and got...4000 views.

You're talking about a big splash in a very tiny pond. These are rounding error numbers in the number of D&D players out there.

Yea so small they got banned from GenCon and Origins.

Oh and the 13k views on Captcorajus.

And the reason you can’t find it in the other osr groups is because the deletions and banns.

You can’t say “it’s only also in the rpg site” then go “only thousands out of 20 million” that’s classic moving the goal posts.

 

[darjr]

I will add though, that rpg.net mods have updated that thread several times some with links to ENWorld. Also many other places are
pointing at ENWorld which has blown up traffic here.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

Have they outright said that that's what happened to the person responsible for the "invalid" tweets? I thought they were keeping the identity nebulous to give the broadest coverage on it as an excuse.

Wrong company! Giantlands apparently left with the guy who was the rogue social media manager.

 

[Bolares]

Have they outright said that that's what happened to the person responsible for the "invalid" tweets? I thought they were keeping the identity nebulous to give the broadest coverage on it as an excuse.

Dineheart said he was leaving and taking Giantlands with him

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Yea so small they got banned from GenCon and Origins.

Oh and the 13k views on Captcorajus.

And the reason you can’t find it in the other osr groups is because the deletions and banns.

You can’t say “it’s only also in the rpg site” then go “only thousands out of 20 million” that’s classic moving the goal posts.

To be fair, GenCon & Origins organizers & stewards- as well as those for other conventions- are probably more actively AND passively connected to breaking gaming industry news than 90% of the hobby. It’s their JOB.

As for the rest? Beyond ENWorld and a couple of publisher specific sites, I have historically not been looking at gaming stuff online. I’m not on Twitter or Facebook for anything. Reddit. Nah. Who/what is Captcorajus? When the old creatives say things about the hobby, I need someone to tell me what & where if I don’t want to simply want a 2nd hand account.

The group of 8+ veteran gamers I was in for @20 years? Most were programmers. A few were even game programmers. None of them followed gaming news online beyond product release dates & reviews…for computer games.

 

[darjr]

To be fair, GenCon & Origins organizers & stewards- as well as those for other conventions- are probably more actively AND passively connected to breaking gaming industry news than 90% of the hobby. It’s their JOB.

As for the rest? Beyond ENWorld and a couple of publisher specific sites, I have historically not been looking at gaming stuff online. I’m not on Twitter or Facebook for anything. Reddit. Nah. Who/what is Captcorajus? When the old creatives say things about the hobby, I need someone to tell me what & where if I don’t want to simply want a 2nd hand account.

The group of 8+ veteran gamers I was in for @20 years? Most were programmers. A few were even game programmers. None of them followed gaming news online beyond product release dates & reviews…for computer games.

I’m not making a claim that it’s widely known news. I am pointing out it’s much wider than just ENWorld and the rpg site.

 

[Grendel_Khan]

You're talking about a big splash in a very tiny pond. These are rounding error numbers in the number of D&D players out there.

Except the industry isn't made up entirely of D&D players, and it's such a small industry that numbers in the thousands are often a huge deal. The Kickstarter campaign for the One Ring 2nd edition earned the most money for any original TTRPG on the platform, and it only had about 16k backers.

Plus, you can drill down into almost any news story and find that only a small minority of people are directly consuming it, but that doesn't account for word of mouth, or overall impact.