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Post Posted: Sat Jul 03, 2021 11:18 am 
 

Maybe a little off topic but isn't the Gygax family wealthy?  I would assume so from all the money made early on, corporate buyouts, and royalties thereafter..

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Post Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2021 7:27 am 
 

Sir Kill Alot wrote in TSR relaunched?:Maybe a little off topic but isn't the Gygax family wealthy?  I would assume so from all the money made early on, corporate buyouts, and royalties thereafter..

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reading around TSR's peak sales were 20-30mln USD and made no money (which is kind of incredible, the management must have been truly crap). Given that and the balance sheets, I reckon Gygax walked away with no more than 2.5mln cash on top of whatever he pulled out of the company while working there.

From the little I know of Gygax i wouldnt imagine his lifestyle was conducive to investing. Didnt seem like the financial planning type....

  

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Post Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2021 3:39 pm 
 

I understand from background reading that EGG was a truly bad businessman. That being the case, I wouldn't imagine he made much, and I don't think he ever successfully sold IP after that (nor it seems is his wife able to either. I'm sure the Blumes' did swimmingly out of the deal. Yet, there is still the Gygax name which opens doors in the RPG world, and makes people sit up and listen. The family have one generation not to push the Gygax name into the garbage can of history, and right now it seems like they are all pushing in different directions and few of them give  a F about what their patriarch accomplished in his life. I guess if you grow up in that environment, you learn to take those things for granted.


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Post Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2021 7:56 pm 
 

Things go from bad to worse....

TSR - TSR3 Throws In Towel, Rebrands Wonderfilled | EN World | Dungeons & Dragons | Tabletop Roleplaying Games

They can't even spell their own new name right.....   :roll:


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Post Posted: Thu Jul 08, 2021 12:37 am 
 

benjoshua wrote in TSR relaunched?:Things go from bad to worse....

TSR - TSR3 Throws In Towel, Rebrands Wonderfilled | EN World | Dungeons & Dragons | Tabletop Roleplaying Games

They can't even spell their own new name right.....   :roll:


Wow, I thought they'd have the sense to just fuck off quietly, but apparently not.

What a shitshow.

  

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Post Posted: Thu Jul 08, 2021 7:09 am 
 

Wonderland? Defiled? That sort of name has too many connotations associated with games played on the dark web. Not good.
Who the F came up with that! Wait... Is it Wonder 'filled' or Wonder 'filed'? Can any of the fuckwits spell in that company?


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Post Posted: Thu Jul 08, 2021 9:32 am 
 

mbassoc2003 wrote in TSR relaunched?:Wait... Is it Wonder 'filled' or Wonder 'filed'? Can any of the fuckwits spell in that company?


Somebody else commented on the name, "Maybe it's short for "I wonder why we filed for the TSR trademark in the first place?""   :lol:


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Post Posted: Thu Jul 08, 2021 8:42 pm 
 

mbassoc2003 wrote in TSR relaunched?:Wonderland? Defiled? That sort of name has too many connotations associated with games played on the dark web. Not good.
Who the F came up with that! Wait... Is it Wonder 'filled' or Wonder 'filed'? Can any of the fuckwits spell in that company?


"Wonder if they Filed for the trademark"!  :lol:



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