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| [[Image:TSR.jpg|thumb|right|Products of your Imagination.]]
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| The company that started the hobby. Famous for creating [[Chainmail]], [[Dungeons and Dragons]], [[Gamma World]], [[Empire of the Metal Throne]] and a host of others. Founded by one [[E. Gary Gygax]] and Don Kaye back before most of you were a glimmer in your fathers' eyes.
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| In 1974, they released the White Box, which consisted of 3 books with rules to play as heroes. These were based on the fantasy [[wargame]] [[Chainmail]].
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| They took the concept and made proverbial bank, garnering licenses for Indiana Jones, Marvel Comics, and such as their popularity grew.
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| When the company started getting too big for it's britches, it put a [[horrendous she-bitch]] in charge. Her idea was to get rid of Gygax (Gygax actually smelled the imminent failure and sold his shares to her) and make a second edition of [[AD&D]]. While the second edition did fix a few issues with the first game and introduced a bastardload of awesome fluff and setting material, the [[Menopausal Wendigo]] that ran the company decided that playtesting was a bad idea and TSR put out the OPTION series (or D&D 2.5 as it's sometimes referred to by [[butthurt]] people that got screwed over by [[WotC]]) which were broken and eventually led to the companies demise shortly after their 25th anniversary.
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| Fuck You, [[Lorraine Williams]].
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