Looks like the boardgame, two computer games, three boxed sets for the RPG, fourteen released supplements for the RPG (and three more cancelled), and ten novels.
Dang, they cranked it out back thenLooks like the boardgame, two computer games, three boxed sets for the RPG, fourteen released supplements for the RPG (and three more cancelled), and ten novels.
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Amazing Engine got nine products.
Spelljammer appears to have gotten four boxed sets and seventeen other supplements.
Al Qadim two boxed sets and twelve supplements.
Yes, the amount of stuff that TSR was putting out was mind-boggling. Even as an enthusiastic player, I felt swamped and, judging by the reports of massive unsold inventory, so were many others at the time.
On the other hand, some of them were also genius ideas, like Monstrous Compendium pages printed on two sides of tissue paper, so that they couldn't be properly alphabetized and would quickly fall apart after even casual use.
How I hated those... really a "brilliant" idea.
The only time in my life I bought punch hole paper reinforcement stickers.
No kidding. There were 15-16 books published for the Complete Book of... series produced from 1989-1995. And that's just crazy when you consider everything else they were publishing for 2nd edition. Despite owning a ton of AD&D 2nd edition products, even now I'll hear something mentioned that I didn't remember existing at all. They were publishing books and other supplements like they were going out of style.
I'm on Chapter 8 (Tomb of Horrors) of When We Were Wizards, and the creatives are talking about the production standards the Blume were setting in the early 80s, expecting a creative team of 8-10ish(?) people to pump out fifty or sixty products a year, with mandatory 48 hour work weeks, for a while.
