Well, everyone was willing to believe any evil of TSR, because they really were doing most of them for real. Kinda like the Microsoft of gaming. And if you didn't know how this kind of thing works on the legal level, yeah, it would look exactly like what everyone thought it was.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.