I vaguely remember the soy idiot Patrick Weekes (ostensible lead writer for DA4) drawing attention to xirself on Twitter and promptly getting ridiculed because: Lead writer for EA/Bioware
But I missed the TSR connection.
Wizards of the Coast didn't renew the trademark a long time ago, so back in 2011 the TSR trademark was bought by Jayson Elliot and "TSR Games" founded. WotC didn't react or care at all about that. They published some magazine to begin with and Ernie Gygax, Gary's son, wrote some things for it, but they parted ways and the magazine was no more.
Timeline:
Sometime in 2020:Elliot missed a trademark filing date that gave Gygax, Jr. the opportunity to file for it instead, which he did. TSR was now the property of Ernie Gygax.
June 25th, 2021: Ernie Gygax posts a Tweet involving the hashtag #keepgamingfantasy
June 26th, 2021: Patrick Weekes posts the epic fail linked above in the spoiler.
June 27th, 2021: Elliot's company refuses to do any business with Gygax and parts ways, in a fit of social justice.
July 1st, 2021: Gizmodo publishes a fairly comprehensive article about the story so far.
In the meantime the new new TSR starts development of a tabletop RPG based on the old TSR game "Star Frontiers". They called it: Star Frontiers New Genesis.
December 2021: TSR sues WotC for their old and unused IPs and sought to raise money for their lawsuit through crowdfunding, but the crowdfunding fails and TSR voluntarily drops the lawsuit.
September 9th, 2022: But that wakes the ESG goyslop giant WotC, so they WotC filed an injunction that was intended to prevent the publication of content it calls “despicable” and “blatantly racist and transphobic.”
Polygon has a reasonable overview of the story so far.
June 8th, 2023: TSR files for bankruptcy after spending all their money fighting WotC's lawsuit against them and the story ends there. Crushed by the ESG man.
It wasn't meant to be. But what happens to the TSR brand? Nothing probably, but you never know. Things can always get worse.
