Edena_of_Neith
First Post
Back in 1994, I looked forward in time, and I thought I saw the demise of TSR down the road.
Perhaps this was because I was pessimistic, but the forboding upon me would not go away.
I began collecting TSR items.
I grew my collection into something respectable, and then took up collecting for real, as a hobby in itself.
As a collector, I frequented hobby stores, conventions, and mail-order lists, looking for older TSR items, and I found them.
One day, while poking through a box of modules under a desk (literally, and it had a tablecloth on it, so you could not see me under there) I found all the H modules.
I found the Is, and the Us, and the UKs, and I learned of the WGs, and when the Triviathalon List came out I discovered just how many things TSR had produced.
But that was long ago, and my Historic Library sits now, gathering dust on the protective plastic I have it in, and most certainly it seems nobody plays the old modules, or even remembers them, and the very game they were written for is gone, and the very company that produced that game is also gone.
For yes, TSR is gone.
When TSR went into bankruptsy, they laid off a large number of their people, including many of their designers (for example, the Dark Sun design team was lost at that point.)
However, the Forgotten Realms design team, and the core design team, remained, and were incorporated into Wizards of the Coast, along with other people salvaged from the ruin of TSR.
But then WOTC was bought by Hasbro. Hasbro initially preserved WOTC, but then the knives came out, and people were cut away.
The CEO of WOTC apparently, if I recall what I have been told correctly, resigned from WOTC over this.
In the years since, more and more people who had come over from TSR have been laid off, or have left of their own accord.
Now, Dragon Magazine and Dungeon Magazine are no longer owned by WOTC. I am guessing that most of the people who once worked on those magazines are gone too, now.
Who is left?
Who remains from the old world of TSR?
Who remains from the world that was?
That is, who from the old world remains at WOTC.
Obviously, people from the old world are scattered throughout the new d20 world.
I am asking specifically concerning WOTC, for they are still the Standard Bearer of the game Dungeons and Dragons, which came from TSR, the company that created Dungeons and Dragons in a time now lost in the mists of history.
Perhaps this was because I was pessimistic, but the forboding upon me would not go away.
I began collecting TSR items.
I grew my collection into something respectable, and then took up collecting for real, as a hobby in itself.
As a collector, I frequented hobby stores, conventions, and mail-order lists, looking for older TSR items, and I found them.
One day, while poking through a box of modules under a desk (literally, and it had a tablecloth on it, so you could not see me under there) I found all the H modules.
I found the Is, and the Us, and the UKs, and I learned of the WGs, and when the Triviathalon List came out I discovered just how many things TSR had produced.
But that was long ago, and my Historic Library sits now, gathering dust on the protective plastic I have it in, and most certainly it seems nobody plays the old modules, or even remembers them, and the very game they were written for is gone, and the very company that produced that game is also gone.
For yes, TSR is gone.
When TSR went into bankruptsy, they laid off a large number of their people, including many of their designers (for example, the Dark Sun design team was lost at that point.)
However, the Forgotten Realms design team, and the core design team, remained, and were incorporated into Wizards of the Coast, along with other people salvaged from the ruin of TSR.
But then WOTC was bought by Hasbro. Hasbro initially preserved WOTC, but then the knives came out, and people were cut away.
The CEO of WOTC apparently, if I recall what I have been told correctly, resigned from WOTC over this.
In the years since, more and more people who had come over from TSR have been laid off, or have left of their own accord.
Now, Dragon Magazine and Dungeon Magazine are no longer owned by WOTC. I am guessing that most of the people who once worked on those magazines are gone too, now.
Who is left?
Who remains from the old world of TSR?
Who remains from the world that was?
That is, who from the old world remains at WOTC.
Obviously, people from the old world are scattered throughout the new d20 world.
I am asking specifically concerning WOTC, for they are still the Standard Bearer of the game Dungeons and Dragons, which came from TSR, the company that created Dungeons and Dragons in a time now lost in the mists of history.
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