HAVE FOLKS FORGOT T$R???

There much wringing of hands, clucking of tongues, and vapours regarding statements by Hasbro CEO Chris Cocks planning to move D&D to a live service model and supposedly away from physical book format. "Books will always be an important part of D&D," Cocks said. "It will always be kind of like a special totem that you can collect."Gamers, we have been here before!In the giddy and impetuous 1970s by the time I started gaming had evolved into a free-for-all here on the West Coast. While we imported D&D and Judges Guild, we also had third party publishers Arduin Grimoires and Chaosium to add D&D flavor and crunch to our campaigns. Then, in the early 80's T$R started to clampdown on what was becoming a nation-wide phenomenon. T$R ceased licensing "official" ruled 3rd party material to publishers like Judges Guild (Goodbye Wilderlands). Then started licensing their D&D intellectual property on action figures, electronic games, coloring books, and, my personal favorite bloat, "Player Packs"…