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<blockquote data-quote="Mannahnin" data-source="post: 8437595" data-attributes="member: 7026594">Are you joking?Jon Peterson, the famously thorough researcher who brought us Playing at the World and The Elusive Shift, has written a new book, Game Wizards, digging deeply into the business side of TSR and the development of D&amp;D, from the very beginnings of TSR through Gary's ouster in 1985.Peterson, as usual, is fanatically dedicated to primary sources. Letters to and from Gary and Dave and the Blumes, for example. The actual TSR business and financial records, still retained by WotC. The minutes of TSR meetings, internal memos, etc. He's scrupulously limited in expressing personal opinions, instead focused on letting Dave and Gary's own words show what they were like and what they did.Did you not read the first post of the thread before commenting?That's the entire premise of this discussion.&nbsp; That with the new info we now have that Peterson is showing us, it casts Gary and TSR's management prior to the ouster in a much more thoroughly-documented negative light.&nbsp; And gives reason for doubting some of the accepted narratives about Williams.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mannahnin, post: 8437595, member: 7026594"] Are you joking? Jon Peterson, the famously thorough researcher who brought us Playing at the World and The Elusive Shift, has written a new book, Game Wizards, digging deeply into the business side of TSR and the development of D&D, from the very beginnings of TSR through Gary's ouster in 1985. Peterson, as usual, is fanatically dedicated to primary sources. Letters to and from Gary and Dave and the Blumes, for example. The actual TSR business and financial records, still retained by WotC. The minutes of TSR meetings, internal memos, etc. He's scrupulously limited in expressing personal opinions, instead focused on letting Dave and Gary's own words show what they were like and what they did. Did you not read the first post of the thread before commenting? That's the entire premise of this discussion. That with the new info we now have that Peterson is showing us, it casts Gary and TSR's management prior to the ouster in a much more thoroughly-documented negative light. And gives reason for doubting some of the accepted narratives about Williams. [/QUOTE]

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