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<blockquote data-quote="Alzrius" data-source="post: 9426710" data-attributes="member: 8461">And this is where I have to respectfully disagree with you, Snarf.While some of those stories come off differently now, the majority of them strike me as being just as true now as when they were first put out there. Yes, ones like her being fat are absolutely cringe-worthy now. But those don't, that I've seen, make up the vast majority of what people have to say about her.It was under her tenure that TSR nurtured an impressive crop of future bestselling authors...and then alienated almost all of them. Passing on a Lord of the Rings license if it didn't include writing new novels. Draconian rules about artists not owning the originals of the work they made (Brom, specifically, cited that as being why he left TSR). Two Buck Rogers games that nobody wanted, in an effort to prop up IP her family owned (at least when Gary Gygax published Greyhawk, it was TSR's property rather than his). An incredibly litigious relationship with the fan community.All of these, and numerous other stories, look exactly the same now as they did when we first heard about them, and none have &quot;flags&quot; that seem to suggest sexism is slanting what we're told. She might not have been the Wicked Witch of the West, but Lorraine Williams doesn't seem to have been a good boss by any reasonable standards that I've seen.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Alzrius, post: 9426710, member: 8461"] And this is where I have to respectfully disagree with you, Snarf. While [I]some[/I] of those stories come off differently now, the majority of them strike me as being just as true now as when they were first put out there. Yes, ones like her being fat are absolutely cringe-worthy now. But those don't, that I've seen, make up the vast majority of what people have to say about her. It was under her tenure that TSR nurtured an impressive crop of future bestselling authors...and then alienated almost all of them. Passing on a [I]Lord of the Rings[/I] license if it didn't include writing new novels. Draconian rules about artists not owning the originals of the work they made (Brom, specifically, cited that as being why he left TSR). Two Buck Rogers games that nobody wanted, in an effort to prop up IP her family owned (at least when Gary Gygax published Greyhawk, it was TSR's property rather than his). An incredibly litigious relationship with the fan community. All of these, and numerous other stories, look exactly the same now as they did when we first heard about them, and none have "flags" that seem to suggest sexism is slanting what we're told. She might not have been the Wicked Witch of the West, but Lorraine Williams doesn't seem to have been a good boss by any reasonable standards that I've seen. [/QUOTE]

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