Perhaps Random House would acquire D&D? D&D Makes Its Saving Throwīut salvation was to come from the most surprising of places.įive Rings Publishing was a gaming company which published the Legend of the Five Ringscard game, and Five Rings CEO Bob Abramowitz heard about the problems at TSR. Those who knew the extent of the problems facing TSR speculated that the company would eventually go bankrupt, with pieces of it given away to creditors.
Owing money on both the production and distribution ends of their business, TSR was damned to the right and damned to the left. By 1997, TSR was bleeding to death. At the same time, their printer, whom they were contractually obligated to use exclusively, was refusing to print any more of their products until TSR paid off the significant debt they owed them. To recap, TSR’s distributor, Random House, had returned millions of dollars worth of products for a refund, which led to massive layoffs.
To catch you up on the history of Dungeons & Dragons, your nerdmates at Geek & Sundry are providing you with this handy-dandy series of stories on the history and impact of the world’s oldest role-playing game! You can read the first part of this series, on the birth, flourishing, and then economic difficulties facing D&D and its mother company, TSR.
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