TSR NuTSR Declares Bankruptcy

NuTSR, owned by Justin LaNasa, has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy, which will liquidate the company's assets.

NuTSR's gross revenue so far for 2023 is $621.93 according to the documents filed in North Carolina. This is balanced against total liabilities of just over $384,000.

The company made the news over the last couple of years, emerging in 2020 when then-owners Justin LaNasa and Stephen Dinehart registered the defunct TSR trademarks and launched the new venture with the involvement of Ernie Gygax, one of D&D co-creator Gary Gygax's sons. Over the following months, NuTSR generated controversy after controversy, attempted to sue D&D publishers Wizards of the Coast via a crowdfunding effort, and in March 2022 eventually found itself on the receiving end of a lawsuit from them.

TSR - The Full & Glorious History of NuTSR

Because the Saga of TSR3 has been ongoing for a while, with many landmarks, I thought I'd do a quick timeline for those who haven't had the time (or, frankly, inclination) to keep up with the whole palaver. As multiple entities refer to themselves as TSR, I will use the nomenclature (1), (2)...

www.enworld.org

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As a consequence of the bankruptcy petition the current lawsuit between WotC and NuTSR is on hold, postponed until March 2024. NuTSR's website is still active.

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[Shakeshift]

The one thing I would like to see if someone does manage to buy the Dungeon Hobby Shop Museum after Justin is forced by court order to put it up for sale, is that whomever the new owner is, they finally just tell Ernie he can't attach himself to their Lake Geneva business and just play pretend in it all day long.

For the DHSM to be a "real" part of gaming history, it needs to be a genuine place for gamers of all types, genders, and creeds, and Ernie's horrible and narrow-minded actions from the last two or three years makes the visits there divisive if he's going to be there like some elderly mascot.

I don't ever want to see Ernie there if I go to visit. I can barely tolerate him when I see him walking around at Gary Con because of all the awful people he's willingly broke bread with these last few years (happily broke bread with, I may add) like Lanasa, Dinehart, and others. Those people were terrible human beings. Absolutely awful.

If the museum really wants to be taken seriously, it has to be a fresh beginning, not just Ernie Gygax's Favorite Place, Part 2. The best way to accomplish that is not let Ernie think of it as his own personal nostalgia ride from forty years ago. Ernie's somewhat problematic personal ideologies hold zero interest for me. I would respectfully come for the gaming history, but not for Ernie Gygax himself. That guy needs to peacefully go away.

 

[LordEntrails]

FYI, I'm sure @Jedion357 will post here soon, but he's posted on FB that LaNasa has filed to reform TSR in Wisconsin. That's going to go over well with the bankruptcy court.

 

[Deset Gled]

FYI, I'm sure @Jedion357 will post here soon, but he's posted on FB that LaNasa has filed to reform TSR in Wisconsin. That's going to go over well with the bankruptcy court.

That doesn't sound quite right. Justin formed a version of TSR in Wisconsin back in 2020:

https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_wi/T087073

He also has a version registered in NC:

https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_nc/2313050

Both registrations of the company were known to the lawsuit and were properly referenced in the court documents.

Justin can't get away from this by moving states.

 

[Olaf the Stout]

I'm pretty sure Ernie is solidly on the side of Ernie, and will talk lots of bigoted nonsense when he's surrounded by bigots or feels supported by them, and back off when he feels that its in his best interests not to be seen as a bigot. His convictions are decided entirely by his (very limited understanding of his) best interests in the moment.

He'd be equally fine with Nazis or "radical leftists" operating the shop, just as long as he gets to run his games and nobody makes him feel bad when he speaks out of turn.

So he wants no consequences for his continual bad choices. Gotcha.

 

[Umbran]

So he wants no consequences for his continual bad choices. Gotcha.

To be fair, it isn't like anyone wants consequences for bad choices.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

The best way to accomplish that is not let Ernie think of it as his own personal nostalgia ride from forty years ago. Ernie's somewhat problematic personal ideologies hold zero interest for me. I would respectfully come for the gaming history, but not for Ernie Gygax himself. That guy needs to peacefully go away.

I'm reminded of something Arnold Schwarzenegger wrote in his newsletter recently:

"You can’t accomplish anything in the past, you can’t spend time with anyone in the past, and you sure as hell can’t find happiness in the past."

 

[J Halk Games]

Don't they say "Go woke and go broke"?

They said they would outlast us, that we would go broke.

We're still here.

 

[Maxperson]

"The document also states the gross revenue for TSR LLC so far for the year 2023 was $621.93."
This made me laugh out loud this morning...for a long time

And there's a better than even chance that the number above is the result of a typo or addition error.

 

[RealAlHazred]

To be fair, it isn't like anyone wants consequences for bad choices.

No, no, I actually want the consequences for my bad choices, to remind me not to do them again. But I can learn from my mistakes, which is a skill some lack...

 

[Parmandur]

And there's a better than even chance that the number above is the result of a typo or addition error.

Or just made up.