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TSR, Inc. was an American game publishing company most famous for publishing the '' Dungeons & Dragons '' Role-playing Game . The company was purchased in 1997 by Wizards Of The Coast , which no longer uses the TSR name for its products. HISTORY Tactical Studies Rules was formed in 1973 as a partnership between Gary Gygax and Don Kaye as a means to publish formally and sell the rules of '' Dungeons & Dragons '', one of the first modern Role-playing Games . The partnership was subsequently joined by Brian Blume and (temporarily) by Dave Arneson . When Don Kaye died of a stroke in 1975, the Tactic Study Rules partnership was dissolved. Brian Blume and Gary Gygax , the remaining owners, incorporated a new company, '''TSR Hobbies, Inc.''', of which Blume and his father, Melvin Blume, had the larger share. The former assets of the partnership were transferred to TSR Hobbies, Inc. Ownership of Melvin Blume's shares were later transfer to Kevin Blume. With the board of directors consisting of Kevin and Brian Blume plus Gygax, Gygax was primarily a figurehead president & CEO of the corporation with Brian Blume as President of creative affairs and Kevin as President, operations effect in 1981. In 1983, the company was split into three companies, TSR, Inc. (primary successor), TSR International and TSR Entertainment, Inc."OD&Dities issue 9 |
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