The Rise and Fall of TSR

Between 1976 and 1984, according to the book Game Wizards, TSR's annual revenue grew from $300,000 to $29.6 million. But over the same stretch, the company went from an annual profit of $19,000 to losses of $750,000. Dettes mounted, lawsuits proliferated, and a feud raged between GIGACS and Arneson resulting in years of recriminations and litigation. Any attempt at gaining a bigger cultural foothold would have to contend with fundamentalist Christian groups who appeared regularly in local and national media. In 1983, an animated D&D cartoon series began airing on Saturday mornings, but it was bludgeoned by the smur