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<blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 6937187" data-attributes="member: 996">Corpsetaker made a claim about why TSR failed - 'bad management' rather than an 11 year run of a prolific TTRPG product.&nbsp; Yeah, you speculated about whether producing a lot of product was also a 'bad management' thing, but his reply to that digression went right back to the original point, that the well-known failure of collectible games and novels was the proximate cause of the failure.TSR suffered from bad management, resulting in it's downfall, sure.&nbsp; During the same period it also published one of the longer-running, more successful editions of D&amp;D.&nbsp; There's no evidence that side of the business was unprofitable by TTRPG standards (which are necessarily pretty low, though I'm sure it couldn't have been as profitable as 1e at the height of the fad), so I'm not sure why you're implicitly assuming that while also demanding proof...I understand getting frustrated with Corpsetaker, but you've definitely lost me at this point.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tony Vargas, post: 6937187, member: 996"] Corpsetaker made a claim about why TSR failed - 'bad management' rather than an 11 year run of a prolific TTRPG product. Yeah, you speculated about whether producing a lot of product was also a 'bad management' thing, but his reply to that digression went right back to the original point, that the well-known failure of collectible games and novels was the proximate cause of the failure. TSR suffered from bad management, resulting in it's downfall, sure. During the same period it also published one of the longer-running, more successful editions of D&D. There's no evidence that side of the business was unprofitable by TTRPG standards (which are necessarily pretty low, though I'm sure it couldn't have been as profitable as 1e at the height of the fad), so I'm not sure why you're implicitly assuming that while also demanding proof... I understand getting frustrated with Corpsetaker, but you've definitely lost me at this point. [/QUOTE]

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