D&D General Lorraine Williams: Is it Time for a Reevaluation?

[darjr]

Egad. Looking through search results I’ve found a group of folks hating her FOR selling to WotC. That the sale itself destroyed D&D.

 

[Bolares]

Egad. Looking through search results I’ve found a group of folks hating her FOR selling to WotC. That the sale itself destroyed D&D.

There was a thread in the front page this week about how dnd died with tsr…

 

[darjr]

There was a thread in the front page this week about how dnd died with tsr…

Oh, yea, I have not read that thread.

 

[Bolares]

Oh, yea, I have not read that thread.

I went there, just to try and figure out what the heck I've been playing the last 18 years if DnD was dead

 

[darjr]

Undead D&D, necromancers we.

 

[Bolares]

THAT'S WHY EVERYONE PLAYED NECROMANCERS IN MY GAME!

 

[MoonSong]

Which thread?

Edit: Nevermind, found it:

D&D General - Did D&D Die with TSR?

I was going to post this in one of the celebratory threads about the 20th anniversary of 3rd edition, and decided that it was too tangential and thread-cappy to go there. So I am putting it in its own thread so we can discuss (if you feel like it). I'm not an expert historian about TTRPGs and...

www.enworld.org

 

[darjr]

Oi! I was in that thread….. I blame…. Something

 

[HammerMan]

All of the care takers of TSR did bad things... All care takers of D&D/TSR kept our hobby going.

 

[Zardnaar]

but this makes her at worst a bad business executive. The villification goes waaaay beyind that.

I think the main problem is a couple of people are insisting the villain narrative but no one here is pushing it.

And pretty much everyone here knows Gary wasn't good at business.

And in the last few years attitudes towards 2E seem to be shifting.

And there's also been positive stories about Lorraine come out as well like how she kept that guy on the payroll who was barely working due to cancer.

Gygax gets more credit I suppose because he did creative things and had a pipeline to the fans via Dragon Magazine and forums.