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<blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 9427251" data-attributes="member: 58197">From what I can tell, TSR was in a fiery screaming dive into bankruptcy when she took over. She pulled it out. If she hadn't, then D&amp;D might have gone the way of a thousand other '80s fads.So &quot;the game might have ceased to exist without her&quot; seems like a pretty compelling case for her being a net positive. Even though she ended up taking TSR into another fiery screaming dive, she kept it flying long enough for Peter Adkison to come to the rescue with his cardboard crack millions*. The only ways I can see to make her out a net negative are a) to argue that D&amp;D would have somehow survived without her intervention, or b) to argue that the hobby as a whole would actually have been better off if D&amp;D had collapsed in the early '80s.*At which point Ryan Dancey wisely took out some fiery screaming dive insurance in the form of the OGL.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dausuul, post: 9427251, member: 58197"] From what I can tell, TSR was in a fiery screaming dive into bankruptcy when she took over. She pulled it out. If she hadn't, then D&D might have gone the way of a thousand other '80s fads. So "the game might have ceased to exist without her" seems like a pretty compelling case for her being a net positive. Even though she ended up taking TSR into [I]another[/I] fiery screaming dive, she kept it flying long enough for Peter Adkison to come to the rescue with his cardboard crack millions*. The only ways I can see to make her out a net negative are a) to argue that D&D would have somehow survived without her intervention, or b) to argue that the hobby as a whole would actually have been better off if D&D had collapsed in the early '80s. [SIZE=3]*At which point Ryan Dancey wisely took out some fiery screaming dive insurance in the form of the OGL.[/SIZE] [/QUOTE]

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