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Kagura:
So di essere piuttosto off topic e pure ignorantello, ma questa Lorraine chi é?
Moreno Roncucci:
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Mi autocito:
--- Citazione ---[cite]Autore: Moreno Roncucci[/cite]Questi sono i volumi "base" di AD&D pubblicati nei 4 anni successivi (1985-1988), dopo aver evitato la bancarotta grazie a UA (scritto in fretta e furia da Gygax che a sua volta aveva estromesso i Blume, che si erano "vendicati" vendendo le loro quote a Lorraine Williams.
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Se vuoi informazioni più estese su chi è, ecco la pagina su wikipedia:
Lorraine Williams
Il brano che interessa è questo:
"Gary Gygax hired Williams to manage TSR, Inc. in 1984. By the end of 1985, she had forced Gygax out of TSR and had assumed full control of the company. Due to inventory control problems in 1996, she was forced to sell TSR, Inc to Wizards of the Coast."
Più in dettaglio:
Gary Gygax, partner in the company TSR had been in Hollywood working on licensing the Dungeons & Dragons brand when he met Flint Dille, with whom he collaborated on a series of choose-your-own-adventure-type novels and a script for an unmade Dungeons & Dragons film. While Gygax was involved in the making of the Dungeons & Dragons animated television show and exploring the possibility of a film adaptation of the game, he left the day-to-day operations of TSR to his fellow board members, Kevin and Brian Blume. By the time he came back to Wisconsin, the company was $1.5 million in debt. Flint Dille arranged for Gygax to meet Lorraine Williams, although she turned down his request to invest in TSR. However, Gygax hired Williams, who had management experience, to manage the company. Gygax engineered the removal of Kevin Blume as CEO, and the removal of three of Blume's friends from the board as well. In an act many saw as retaliation, the Blumes soon sold their stock to Williams, removing Gygax's controlling stake in the company. Gygax tried to fire Williams, and replace her with his future wife Gail Carpenter, but was advised not to. Gygax tried to have the sale of stock declared illegal; after that failed, Gygax sold his remaining stock to Williams and left TSR at the end of 1985. Williams continued to thwart Gygax's attempts to create games which were, in her opinion, infringements on TSR's intellectual property.
Per il resto, bisogna vedere la pagina di Wikipedia della TSR (che in alcuni punti contraddice quella della Lorraine. Come sempre, dipende da chi scrive la pagina... comunque sto quotando wikipedia per far prima e ricordare megllio, ma queste cose si dibattono da vent'anni nel settore, non le ho imparate su wikipedia
The Blumes were forced to leave the company after being accused of misusing corporate funds and accumulating large debts in the pursuit of acquisitions such as latchhook rug kits that were thought to be too broadly targeted. Within a year of the ascension of the Blumes, the company was forced to post a net loss of 1.5 million US dollars, resulting in layoffs for approximately 75% of the staff. Some of these staff members went on to form other prominent game companies such as Pacesetter Games, Mayfair Games and to work with Coleco's video game division.
TSR, Inc., released the Dragonlance saga in 1984 after two years of development, making TSR the number one publisher of fantasy and science fiction novels in the USA. Dragonlance consisted of an entirely new game world promoted both by a series of game supplements and a trilogy of novels written by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman. "The Dragons of Autumn Twilight", the first novel in the series, reached the top of the New York Times Best Seller list, encouraging TSR to a launch a long series of paperback novels based on the various official settings for D&D.
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Gygax, who at that time owned only approximately 30% of the stock, requested that the Board of Directors remove the Blumes as a way of restoring financial health to the company. In an act many saw as retaliation, the Blumes sold their stock to Lorraine Williams. Gygax tried to have the sale declared illegal; after that failed, Gygax sold his remaining stock to Williams and used the capital to form New Infinity Productions.
Williams was a financial planner who saw the potential for transforming the debt-plagued company into a highly profitable one. However, she was disdainful of the gaming field, viewing herself as superior to gamers. Williams implemented an internal policy under which playing games was forbidden at the company. This resulted in many products being released without being playtested (some were playtested "on the sly") and a large number of products being released that were incompatible with the existing game system.
Di tutto questo si è sempre parlato poco in Italia (dove davvero, la conoscenza della storia dei gdr in generale è praticamente nulla se non piena di leggende strampalate), ma negli USA la Williams è considerata dai fans di D&D poco meno del Diavolo in persona (in particolare per la politica di denuncie a tappeto fatte dalla TSR ai primi siti web su D&D e a qualunque gdr somigliasse ai suoi - famose quelle ad ogni gdr di Gygax - e poi ovviamente per aver portato la TSR al fallimento.)
Kagura:
Grazie delle informazioni. Panorama inquietante, da farci un film-polpettone intriso di speculazioni finanziarie. Devo dire che con questa gente coinvolta si perde tutta la poesia delle "origini" del gdr...
Mattia Bulgarelli:
--- Citazione ---[cite]Autore: Kagura[/cite]si perde tutta la poesia delle "origini" del gdr...
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Anticipo la risposta di Moreno "...e prima la perdiamo, meglio è", o qualcosa del genere. Sbaglio? :P
Niccolò:
--- Citazione ---[cite]Autore: Kagura[/cite]Devo dire che con questa gente coinvolta si perde tutta la poesia delle "origini" del gdr...
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è per questo che i fan si tappano le orecchie quando se ne parla...
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