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Lorraine Williams: Is it Time for a Reevaluation?
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<blockquote data-quote="jolt" data-source="post: 8434123" data-attributes="member: 18142"><p>No, it is not time for a reevaluation - she was terrible.</p><p></p><p>A lot of cool stuff came out during her tenure, but she didn't create any of that. She didn't create anything. Almost none of the upper management at TSR under her were people who created anything or, in fact, even gamed at all. Het attempts to use the use the properties of the defunct SPI ended up as a financial disaster. Her decision to sue GDW and Gygax was a monstrous failure (despite that both Gygax and GDW were willing to settle out of court). Not only did she lose the case, she ended up having to settle out of court anyway. </p><p></p><p>When important art projects came up, Brom would be told by upper management to only use "expensive" paints. No one in upper management seemed to understand that supplements sell less than core materials and so almost every product was over printed. She didn't save TSR at all. Despite th high quality of the 2E products, she was still utterly incompetent at managing it and drove it into the ground. She treated the artists and writers like crap.</p><p></p><p>You don't have to take my word for it either. Most of those people are still around. Go to the artists websites and see what they have to say. Got to dragonsfoot and look at the forum archives from the early 2000's when many of the old TSR grognards were posting and see what they have to say. Look at the court filings from when TSR tried to sue Gygax and GDW and look at what they're arguing.</p><p></p><p>We'll likely never know the specifics of who said what to whom in exact terms, but the generalities have never been in any doubt. Trying to cast it in doubt because maybe Gary (who is Satan incarnate....apparently) maybe kind of said something that was maybe kind of untrue is 100% BS (and would change nothing even if true).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jolt, post: 8434123, member: 18142"] No, it is not time for a reevaluation - she was terrible. A lot of cool stuff came out during her tenure, but she didn't create any of that. She didn't create anything. Almost none of the upper management at TSR under her were people who created anything or, in fact, even gamed at all. Het attempts to use the use the properties of the defunct SPI ended up as a financial disaster. Her decision to sue GDW and Gygax was a monstrous failure (despite that both Gygax and GDW were willing to settle out of court). Not only did she lose the case, she ended up having to settle out of court anyway. When important art projects came up, Brom would be told by upper management to only use "expensive" paints. No one in upper management seemed to understand that supplements sell less than core materials and so almost every product was over printed. She didn't save TSR at all. Despite th high quality of the 2E products, she was still utterly incompetent at managing it and drove it into the ground. She treated the artists and writers like crap. You don't have to take my word for it either. Most of those people are still around. Go to the artists websites and see what they have to say. Got to dragonsfoot and look at the forum archives from the early 2000's when many of the old TSR grognards were posting and see what they have to say. Look at the court filings from when TSR tried to sue Gygax and GDW and look at what they're arguing. We'll likely never know the specifics of who said what to whom in exact terms, but the generalities have never been in any doubt. Trying to cast it in doubt because maybe Gary (who is Satan incarnate....apparently) maybe kind of said something that was maybe kind of untrue is 100% BS (and would change nothing even if true). [/QUOTE]
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