CG Online Presents The History of D&D

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(Originally posted by Mollusken)

CG Online has written an article on the history of D&D, the creators and the TSR company. The article is very long, and covers a lot of interesting stuff.

TSR under Williams was positively hostile towards its own fans. The company enforced its copyrights ruthlessly, closing down fan sites on the Internet and demanding that people avoid discussing the game in Usenet forums. People began to refer to the company as "T$R," and joked that the initials stood for "They Sue Regularly." After Gygax left the company, he created a new role-playing system called Dangerous Journeys, which he published through Game Designer's Workshop. TSR sued him for copyright infringement. " It was a bogus suit, but they spent us out of court," he explained. Under the terms of the settlement, TSR purchased the rights to Dangerous Journeys and all existing stock for more than the company could afford. "I had to laugh, because that was probably the straw that broke the camel's back," says Gygax.

Read the whole article here.