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<blockquote data-quote="MGibster" data-source="post: 9637418" data-attributes="member: 4534">I continue to listen to the podcast and it occurred to me that we're missing Kevin Siembieda's flare for dramatics.&nbsp; Imagine if the dude who came up with the &quot;Crisis of Treachery&quot; could have named what was going on at TSR in 1984-1985.&nbsp; That would have been pure gold.&nbsp; I keep saying this in threads about TSR, but the more I learn about them the more impressed I am they stayed in business so long.&nbsp; How many friends/relatives/girlfriends of other employees did they hire in the 70s and early 80s who essentially did nothing?&nbsp; Kevin Blume used TSR funds to pay for his daughter's college and gave her a salary despite her not being an employee.&nbsp; There is certainly a lot of blame to go around regarding TSR's troubles in the mid-1980s, but I'm getting the impression Gary could be quite duplicitous at times.&nbsp; The sheer, unmitigated gall to get everyone to agree TSR owns the rights everything employees create only to claim this didn't apply to Gary's ownership of D&amp;D is impressive.&nbsp; Was he able to keep a straight face when making that assertion?&nbsp; I just now got in to the Lorraine Williams portion of the podcast and Gary's going to be out soon.&nbsp; Hope he enjoyed that Hollywood mansion while it lasted.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MGibster, post: 9637418, member: 4534"] I continue to listen to the podcast and it occurred to me that we're missing Kevin Siembieda's flare for dramatics. Imagine if the dude who came up with the "Crisis of Treachery" could have named what was going on at TSR in 1984-1985. That would have been pure gold. I keep saying this in threads about TSR, but the more I learn about them the more impressed I am they stayed in business so long. How many friends/relatives/girlfriends of other employees did they hire in the 70s and early 80s who essentially did nothing? Kevin Blume used TSR funds to pay for his daughter's college [I]and[/I] gave her a salary despite her not being an employee. There is certainly a lot of blame to go around regarding TSR's troubles in the mid-1980s, but I'm getting the impression Gary could be quite duplicitous at times. The sheer, unmitigated gall to get everyone to agree TSR owns the rights everything employees create only to claim this didn't apply to Gary's ownership of D&D is impressive. Was he able to keep a straight face when making that assertion? I just now got in to the Lorraine Williams portion of the podcast and Gary's going to be out soon. Hope he enjoyed that Hollywood mansion while it lasted. [/QUOTE]

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