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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shakeshift" data-source="post: 8597437" data-attributes="member: 7034572">My guess is that he thinks all of this hinges of Ernie Gygax. Based on what "Grits" has drunkenly posted in the past on social media, he believes that the sale of TSR to Wizards was faulty for some reason, and that because the sale wasn't legitimized or legal for some reason, the rights should 'revert' back to businessman Gary Gygax (or, in this case, his heir, Ernie Gygax Jr.) - That would give Justin Lanasa keys to the kingdom (or at least, put him within spitting distance of it.)There are many reasons why this wouldn't work (amongst them, the sale of TSR happened in 1994, a decade AFTER Gary Gygax sold off his shares in the company, so Ernie getting anything wouldn't even make any sense.)Justin however, assumes that he is always the smartest person in any room, in spite of misspelling the word "magic" as "majik" one time to my perpetual delight. He assumes that with a jury he can razzle-dazzle them with his 'brilliance' and make it an easy court win for him and Ernie.The FUNNY part is that if any of the fates were to align and the court case WERE to be resolved in his favor, the first thing Ernie would do is cast Justin Lanasa aside like so much garbage, wash his hands of him, and then want nothing to do with him ever again. Ernie HAS no real loyalties, and a company worth 1.06 billion would make him throw Lanasa out a 3rd floor window with alarming speed. Ernie would be holding the keys to his father's kingdom, the one that was snookered away from his father and his family by his father's enemies almost forty years ago. Ernie won it all back. He proved to everyone that he wasn't a weird drunken sideshow exhibit. He'd be the oldest son proving to his whole family that HE was the true hero. Ernie wouldn't give 50% of that controlling power to Justin EVER. The story of the prodigal son winning back his father's kingdom doesn't work with some random dude in the narrative getting 50% of it. Ernie has to do it all by himself for the Hero's Journey to end successfully and for it to end with a Happily Ever After.Justin would get nothing.</blockquote>

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