Editing Lorraine Williams (section)

== What was the damage? ==
* Lorraine sued Gygax and the publishers who tried to print Gygax's new role-playing stuff, making sure that Gary's future career would be stopped and stalled at every turn.
* She removed any references to "Christian-hostile" ideas in sourcebooks, renaming devils to [[Baatezu]] and demons to [[Tanar'ri]], among other things.
* ''D&D'', the flagship product, had to be remade, so she could cheat Gary out of royalties for products designed by him. Thus was born [[AD%26D#AD.26D_2nd_Edition|2nd Edition]].
* She forbade TSR employees from playtesting their work, or as she called it, "playing games on company time." What the fucking fuck. Predictably, this had a knock-on effect on the quality of all future sourcebooks.
* She railroaded ''Buck Rogers'' stuff through TSR because she inherited the license from her grandpaw, allowing her to siphon MOAR money out of TSR. ''(Campy science fiction has since made a comeback, but at the time no one wanted it and the lack of playtesting meant it wasn't a product anyone enjoyed playing anyway.)''
* She gave an executive order to make a [[Spelljammer|sci-fi setting for Dungeons & Dragons]]... but it had to be done NOW, so no playtesting before taking it to the printers. The authors knew it was doomed to fail, so they went off the deep-end with ridiculous shit (turns out the only difference between editorial immunity and pumping out a product editorial doesn't care about is your attitude) and everything went better than expected. Although it got no love at first, it did get some updates in [[Lords of Madness|one of the 3.5e supplements]], when a Spelljammer ship crashed into the campaign setting and some [[neogi]] pop out to raid, trade, and be raided. There was also a 5e book, but it was shit and Spelljammer fans largely wish it didn't exist.
* She saw the money that Wizards was making off ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'' and said TSR had to get a piece of that pie, so she pushed out a forgettable collectible card game and the Dragon Dice products... and made far more than the distributors could sell, costing millions of dollars in returns from distributors.
* Under her watch, TSR increased their novel publishing tenfold... which also undersold in record numbers and cost money to be sent back. [[Rose Estes]] - 'nufsed.
* In 1996, eleven years after she took over, she sold TSR to [[Wizards of the Coast]].

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The horror...