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Message: <blockquote data-quote="humble minion" data-source="post: 8439988" data-attributes="member: 5948">To be fair, Salvatore only got to write D&D fiction at all while she was running TSR.  Gygax was pushed out in 1985, Salvatore only published his first Drizzt novel in 1988.I never had a dog in this fight at the time, I only really got into D&D in the mid 90s and all this was ancient history even then.  But that sums her tenure up in a nutshell really, to me.  A few competent organisational decisions early to stem the bleeding from late-Gygaxian chaos, then an era of extraordinary creative output (the degree to which she is responsible for that is of course debateable, but she is as responsible for TSRs successes in that era as she is for its failures) followed by a long slow crunch into insolvency as whole lot of poor strategic decisions came home to roost.</blockquote>