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"Many Buckets"
Lorraine Williams was described as having a sense of noblesse oblige. While she considered gamers and most of her workers her social inferiors, and held it as a point of pride that she had never played Dungeons & Dragons, she nonetheless did have a soft side that came out in various ways during her tenure as the head of TSR. One TSR worker whose wife was severely mentally ill was kept on the TSR payroll for years, despite his long absences while he cared for her. She also loved animals. TSR would occasionally hold a "Bring Your Pet to Work" day and gave a great deal of money to animal welfare charities. Unfortunately, that softer side wasn't on display all that often during her years at the company, and Lorraine Williams would enter the annals of Dungeons & Dragons history as one of the most reviled people ever associated with the hobby.
She
certainly didn't start out that way, though. When she first started at
the company, she made a series of announcements which, while rather
impolitic, at least had the virtue of being bold. Bill Slaviscek
described Williams' product strategy this way: "The company wasn't
afraid to try new things, and when something was working, they jumped on
it and tried to make it bigger." Under Williams' reign, the company
launched dozens of new products, starting with the 2nd Edition of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons
sEE: http://pc.gamespy.com/articles/539/539628p1.html
"Many Buckets"
Lorraine Williams was described as having a sense of noblesse oblige. While she considered gamers and most of her workers her social inferiors, and held it as a point of pride that she had never played Dungeons & Dragons, she nonetheless did have a soft side that came out in various ways during her tenure as the head of TSR. One TSR worker whose wife was severely mentally ill was kept on the TSR payroll for years, despite his long absences while he cared for her. She also loved animals. TSR would occasionally hold a "Bring Your Pet to Work" day and gave a great deal of money to animal welfare charities. Unfortunately, that softer side wasn't on display all that often during her years at the company, and Lorraine Williams would enter the annals of Dungeons & Dragons history as one of the most reviled people ever associated with the hobby.
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