Reaction Adjustment

06/02/24 • 49 min

Chapter 5 - To keep up with growing product demand, TSR hires a new crop of young designers, developers, and editors. Wages are low, but it’s a chance to work with their hero in a brand new industry. On the management side, Brian Blume's older brother Kevin joins the company and rises through the ranks.

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Creeping Doom

Chapter 4 - Gary Gygax and Brian Blume reassert control by instituting new company policies and focusing exclusively on D&D. Dave Arneson strikes out on his own, but struggles to match TSR's impressive growth. Just months after the company moves into a new headquarters at the former Hotel Clair, Arneson files suit against the company for attempting to remove his name as co-author of D&D and withholding royalty payments.

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Satanic Panic

Chapter 6 - When James Dallas Egbert goes missing, the press and concerned parents start to question the influence D&D holds over impressionable young minds. As a result: the game explodes into the national consciousness and Gary Gygax becomes a multi-millionaire.