Editing Lorraine Williams (section)

== How'd she get so much power anyways? ==
Kind of [[Gary Gygax]]'s fault, mostly the Blume Brothers' fault.  TSR was truckin' along in the early 80's, things were looking up enough that Gary hopped out to California to oversee licensing on the Dungeons & Dragons brand for the Saturday morning cartoon, drum up some support for producing a movie, and get away from running a company so he could write more books.  There he met Flint Dille.  Dille and Gygax wrote those [[Sagard the Barbarian]] choose-your-own-adventure books together.

Meanwhile, Gary left TSR in the hands of Kevin and Brian Blume, who mismanaged the place to the tune of $1.5 million in debt.  When Gygax found out that the Blumes were looking for someone to buy out TSR so they could pay off the debts, Gary said "fuck that shit" and hopped the next plane to Lake Geneva.

After a look at the books and how Blume and the gang were running the place into the ground, he asked his writing buddy Flint Dille to help out.  Well, Flint was more of a writer, but his sister was really business-savvy and might want to invest.  She said no, but she had plenty of experience in running a company, and could help her brother's buddy to get the business back on its feet.

Flint's sister was Lorraine Dille-Williams... who, it turns out, thought gamers were pathetic losers and D&D was anti-Christian. <ref>Notably, [http://www.theknightshift.com/2008/03/gary-gygax-and-christianity-dungeons.html Gary himself was openly Christian], and even [http://boingboing.net/2012/12/24/gary-gygax-explains-why-christ.html considered Christmas to be a pagan holiday instead of a true Christian tradition] (this view, as the Catholics and Orthodox will tell you, is [[heresy|extreme]]). The ultimate irony is that TSR, [[Irony|being founded by a Christian, was destroyed by another, even further out Christian.]]</ref>

Gary told the Blumes and their herp-derp buddies to take a hike.  In a clear-as-day act of retaliation, Blume & co. sold all their shares to Lorraine to make HER the majority shareholder instead of Gygax.  Gary was all "wait, what?" and tried to void the sale, but it was too late.  Lorraine was bwa-ha-ha-ing about how Gygax was a gamer, Gary was "fuck this shit, I don't have to work alongside this bitch," sold the rest of his stock, and left TSR in 1985.