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| [[Image:TSR.jpg|thumb|right|Products of your Imagination.]]
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| The company that started the hobby. The name was, at least at first, an initialism for Tactical Studies Rules. Famous for creating [[Chainmail]], [[Dungeons and Dragons]], [[Gamma World]], [[Empire of the Petal Throne]], [[Alternity]], 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 its britches, it put a [[Lorraine Williams|horrendous she-bitch]] in charge. Her idea was to get rid of Gygax (actually, Gygax smelled the imminent failure and sold her his shares) 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 [[Lorraine Williams|horrendous she-bitch]] that ran the company decided that playtesting was a bad idea ([[Dohohoho]]) 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 company's demise shortly after their 25th anniversary.
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| Fuck You, [[Lorraine Williams]].
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| ==TSR.games==
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| In June 2021, TSR is back as TSR.games under the control of Gygax's son E. Gary Gygax Jr. and someone name Justin LaNasa. They have one game in the queue called [[GiantLands]]. Sadly it sounds like this new TSR is on the fast track to failure because GiantLands is designed to also be used for [[LARP]] since the new company is apparently wanting to open a GiantLands themepark. Seriously, what the fuck?
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