TSR R&D staff, Spring 1997

So, a little more of TSR history, this time a list of all the designers and editors and the product groups they were in at a specific point in history. The timing is at the time of the WotC acquisition, circa April 1997, so folks who were laid off in December 1996 like myself are not included. Nor does it take into account the rpg people already on staff out in Renton, like Jonathan Tweet, Kij Johnson, Mike Selinker, and Jennifer Clarke Wilkes.

Of the thirty-one people listed here,* eight decided not to make the move out to Renton in August 1997, and a few more switched to working off-site from back in the Lake Geneva area. These latter drifted away over the course of the next year. Things are complicated by some people, like myself, who were laid off in December 1996 then rehired by WotC in September 1997.

--John R.

*out of a total of eighty-four TSR folks invited to make the move from the old regime at  Lake Geneva to join the new at Renton.

TSR designers & editors, at time of WotC purchase (circa April 1997)

Group I

Thomas Reid

Karen Boomgarten

Bill Connors

Dale Donovan

Julia Martin

Cindi Rice

Steve Schend

Group II  (ALTERNITY)

Bill Slavicsek

Rich Baker

Jim Butler

David Eckleberry

Kim Mohan

Group III

Harold Johnson

Carrie Bebris

Anne Brown

Steven Brown

Sue Cook

Miranda Horner

Bill Olmesdahl

Ed Stark

Group IV

Steve Winter

Michelle Carter

Monte Cook

Bruce Cordell

Jon Pickens

Keith Strohm

Ray Vallesse

Skip Williams

Special

Bruce Heard (scheduler)

Roger Moore

Sean Reynolds (online)