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<blockquote data-quote="aramis erak" data-source="post: 8394063" data-attributes="member: 6779310">You've got some errors in your history.Tactical Studies Rules, started by E. Gary Gygax, , is the first publisher of D&amp;D; Gygax and Dave Arneson jointly created D&amp;D, based upon things Dave was doing with Gygax's miniatures rules and his &quot;off-table play&quot; in Dave Weseley's Braunstein convention game.WotC comes to exist in 1990, created by Peter Adkison ... they become big from Magic: The Gathering. They don't own D&amp;D until the late 1990's (ISTR 1997.) There is no evidence I've seen for Adkison working on D&amp;D. He did, however, work on several RPGs, none of them D&amp;D.TSR was going bankrupt in the 1995-1997 timeframe.WotC purchased. I recall it taking a good bit of time.In 1999, WotC releases D&amp;D 3.0. Most of the team are not former TSR. There's clear use of materials from AD&amp;D (which WotC acquired with TSR), but it's also quite different.AFAIK, there are almost no remaining TSR designers at WotC. (No judgement.)Oh, and Monte Cook, who, IIRC, was one of the leads on D&amp;D 3.0,&nbsp; has left for certain, and was a TSR holdover.Oh, also, HasBro bought WotC about the same time 3.E was in Layout, in 1999.There's continuity, but it's not the same company, not the same staff, and not answering the the same ownership.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="aramis erak, post: 8394063, member: 6779310"] You've got some errors in your history. Tactical Studies Rules, started by E. Gary Gygax, , is the first publisher of D&D; Gygax and Dave Arneson jointly created D&D, based upon things Dave was doing with Gygax's miniatures rules and his "off-table play" in Dave Weseley's [I]Braunstein[/I] convention game. WotC comes to exist in 1990, created by Peter Adkison ... they become big from [I]Magic: The Gathering. [/I]They don't own D&D until the late 1990's (ISTR 1997.) There is no evidence I've seen for Adkison working on D&D. He did, however, work on several RPGs, none of them D&D. TSR was going bankrupt in the 1995-1997 timeframe. WotC purchased. I recall it taking a good bit of time. In 1999, WotC releases D&D 3.0. Most of the team are not former TSR. There's clear use of materials from AD&D (which WotC acquired with TSR), but it's also quite different. AFAIK, there are almost no remaining TSR designers at WotC. (No judgement.) Oh, and Monte Cook, who, IIRC, was one of the leads on D&D 3.0, has left for certain, and was a TSR holdover. Oh, also, HasBro bought WotC about the same time 3.E was in Layout, in 1999. There's continuity, but it's not the same company, not the same staff, and not answering the the same ownership. [/QUOTE]

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