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Post by GRWelsh on Dec 7, 2022 14:28:09 GMT -5
I started reading this on Kindle. It seems to be the financial history of TSR during the Gygax era. Not bad so far.
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Post by geneweigel on Dec 7, 2022 17:43:29 GMT -5
I still never got around to finishing the first bunch of "TSR stories". I sometimes wish that I hadn't talked to Gary about TSR business so I could have gotten more D&D info from him.  |
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Post by GRWelsh on Dec 7, 2022 18:23:34 GMT -5
Yeah, that's a good thing to point out. This book focuses on the finances and business side of TSR and its growth and in-fighting moreso than the development of the game concepts, which was addressed in PLAYING AT THE WORLD. This book reads like an expansion on Peterson's article "The Ambush at Sheridan Springs."
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Post by foster1941 on Dec 25, 2022 15:59:36 GMT -5
There’s a lot of interesting info in this book and (at least from my perspective) Arneson comes off looking pretty bad, but I found the later chapters frustrating because - just like in the original Ambush at Sheridan Springs essay - he pretty much completely glosses over any conflict between Gary and the Blumes, because the author’s method is that he only relies on contemporary written sources and (apparently) there is little to no such documentation of the Gygax vs Blume feud (because it generally played out in private 3-person meetings where no minutes were kept), so he effectively pretends it didn’t exist, and instead paints a portrait of Gary as just wanting to party and spend his royalty money and not caring about or paying attention to the business stuff which doesn’t line up at all with his after-the-fact accounts of those years.
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