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<blockquote data-quote="Warren" data-source="post: 9585729" data-attributes="member: 71328">I recently dug into the D&amp;D/Gygax history and it's all quite fascinating. As a kid in the mid-80s I had no idea what was going on, but obviously thought Gygax was the man, since all of the core 1st Ed books had his name all over them. As somebody involved in business and finance now I can only slap my forehead with so many decisions made by Gygax, Williams, and others. Pissing off the authors including Salvatore seems insane in retrospect. Those folks were keeping the lights on. I remember that era of a new paperback novel every month, some of questionable quality, but lots of people bought them all up regardless.My view of WOTC and Peter did a complete 180 after learning of those details. He's basically a hero. Great podcast, along with Ben Riggs' book and others gave me a bunch of context of the history here. One thing I haven't seen mentioned is the movie &quot;The Great Kingdom&quot;. It's a lengthy documentary film that came through kickstarter. It appears to be produced by some of the same team:[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/720223857/the-great-kingdom[/URL]Check the updates section where they have published how to watch it now, for free. I mention it because Paul Stormberg features in it and that's where I was linked to this podcast. The documentary is long, but doesn't go past Gary's ousting IIRC. It has a lot of the same people interviewed, lots from Mary Jo, Ernie, etc, which really helped me with putting faces and names to voices in the podcast.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Warren, post: 9585729, member: 71328"] I recently dug into the D&D/Gygax history and it's all quite fascinating. As a kid in the mid-80s I had no idea what was going on, but obviously thought Gygax was the man, since all of the core 1st Ed books had his name all over them. As somebody involved in business and finance now I can only slap my forehead with so many decisions made by Gygax, Williams, and others. Pissing off the authors including Salvatore seems insane in retrospect. Those folks were keeping the lights on. I remember that era of a new paperback novel every month, some of questionable quality, but lots of people bought them all up regardless. My view of WOTC and Peter did a complete 180 after learning of those details. He's basically a hero. Great podcast, along with Ben Riggs' book and others gave me a bunch of context of the history here. One thing I haven't seen mentioned is the movie "The Great Kingdom". It's a lengthy documentary film that came through kickstarter. It appears to be produced by some of the same team: [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/720223857/the-great-kingdom[/URL] Check the updates section where they have published how to watch it now, for free. I mention it because Paul Stormberg features in it and that's where I was linked to this podcast. The documentary is long, but doesn't go past Gary's ousting IIRC. It has a lot of the same people interviewed, lots from Mary Jo, Ernie, etc, which really helped me with putting faces and names to voices in the podcast. [/QUOTE]

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