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<blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 6937807" data-attributes="member: 22424">Nitpick: we don't actually know that that glut of splat (taken as a whole) was unprofitable. There are, I think, two specific products that were sold at a loss (one of the Planescape boxed sets, and IIRC the Encyclopedia Magica set), but taken as a whole D&amp;D seemed to be doing reasonably well. That Silver Anniversary boxed set I mentioned before indicated that '95 was actually something of a banner year for TSR. The asteroid hit in '96.On the other hand, TSR was badly managed, almost from day one, and had already had at least one close escape. So, yeah, it's fair to question just about every decision they made. Of course, that's 'question', not 'condemn'!On the other other hand, even had TSR not failed, I can't help but think some sort of 3rd Edition wasn't far away anyway. 2nd was pretty long in the tooth by '96, and they'd put out the first of the &quot;Player's Option&quot; books that I suspect were a testbed for some of their ideas for the next edition, so I'm not convinced the timetable actually changed all that much.How long does an edition have to last before we call it a success?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="delericho, post: 6937807, member: 22424"] Nitpick: we don't actually know that that glut of splat (taken as a whole) was unprofitable. There are, I think, two specific products that were sold at a loss (one of the Planescape boxed sets, and IIRC the Encyclopedia Magica set), but taken as a whole D&D seemed to be doing reasonably well. That Silver Anniversary boxed set I mentioned before indicated that '95 was actually something of a banner year for TSR. The asteroid hit in '96. On the other hand, TSR [i]was[/i] badly managed, almost from day one, and had already had at least one close escape. So, yeah, it's fair to question just about every decision they made. Of course, that's 'question', not 'condemn'! On the other other hand, even had TSR not failed, I can't help but think some sort of 3rd Edition wasn't far away anyway. 2nd was pretty long in the tooth by '96, and they'd put out the first of the "Player's Option" books that I suspect were a testbed for some of their ideas for the next edition, so I'm not convinced the timetable actually changed all that much. How long does an edition have to last before we call it a success? [/QUOTE]

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