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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Deset Gled" data-source="post: 8994200" data-attributes="member: 7808">Sadly, I have to concur that "Those Pesky Goblinz" was a success.  I don't know how it did in terms of sales (although I'm guessing it's NuTSR's biggest seller so far only because it's available on Amazon).  But it was a success in bringing Lanasa's long term goals to fruition.Lanasa has some business skills.  It's how he made his money.  Chief among those skills is getting others to work for him without a salary or wage.  That's the real secret to a lot of his businesses, like his tattoo parlors.  He just has to find people willing to be artists as contractors (important: not an employee).  Then he owns the real estate, and takes his percentage off the top.  The DHSM works the same way; Jeff Leason runs it in exchange for room and board, Lanasa gets the money.That was the original plan for NuTSR.  Stephen Dinehart and Ernie Gygax were supposed to make the games, and Lanasa would take his money off the top.  But the partnership with Dinehart fell apart, and it turns out Ernie can't actually make any games (as proven by the Marmoreal Tomb debacle).  Lanasa stated early on that he wanted to "license" the TSR name to other games, but he was so toxic that everyone refused to work for him.  Everyone, until Mick McArt.Now, Mick McArt is doing Lanasa's dirty work for him.  He ran the failure that was TSR Con II.  He sells Lanasa's games at country fair-type events.  He does Lanasa's marketing for free.  He was the publisher for Those Pesky Goblinz, and (by all appearances) helped getting Dungeon Crawl manufactured.  It's Mick McArt that got Goblinz on Amazon.  By all accounts, it doesn't look like McArt is being paid by Lanasa.  No, he's a "distributor".  McArt sells the product, keeps a bit for himself, and pays Lanasa for the privilege. McArt gets to believe he's moving up in the world of RPGs, and Lanasa gets his money.Now it looks like Lanasa gets to sit back and let McArt do a new Orcz game for him.  And Lanasa will put his name on it, and take his money off the top.  You can argue about the ethics as much as you want.  But as long as the labor is free, it will continue to make Lanasa money.And just for the record, it should be known that McArt is just as anti-trans as Lanasa.  He's also pretty misogynistic.  As proof, I only had to go back to March to find these lovely memes on this FB page (spoiler: anti-trans and misogynistic material):[SPOILER="Anti-inclusive content"][ATTACH=full]282158[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]282159[/ATTACH][/SPOILER]On an unrelated note, welcome to the boards, Kim.  I was wondering if your [USER=7038835]@Wincenworks[/USER] account was going to join in since you joined us last year.  Your twitter and blogs about NuTSR have been great reads.</blockquote>

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