![]() ![]() We saw an old tractor-trailer rig in the parking lot, with yellow flames painted on its side, BJ & the Bear era shit ("Hey, bro what you haulin?" " Modules dude! Gotta get these modules to the kids!") The facility itself looked kind of abandoned, or at least underused. TSR is long gone from Lake Geneva, having been acquired by Wizards of the Coast. I guess I always imagined TSR HQ as being in some old 1970's style office park, but this what we came across:įuck, how disappointing, looked like it was just their warehouse and shipping/receiving location. JR had found a street address for TSR from some old AD&D module someone had scanned online in. Lake Geneva is a little resort town about 90 minutes north of Chicago, just across the Wisconsin border, and like all resort towns, much more interesting to visit during the off-season. We had planned on checking out Milwaukee anyhow, and Lake Geneva was only an hour out of the way. Taking it as a sign, we decided we should drive up to Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, where TSR was founded, and check the town out. The next morning, JR was looking around online and randomly came across a page telling how, in the early days of Dungeons & Dragons, photocopied versions of the game outnumbered legitimate copies 2 - 1, and so fanatical TSR supporters (calling themselves "TSR rude boys") would go around gaming conventions, confiscating and destroying any "pirated" copies of the D&D rules that they found. Went to a lame show at the Fireside Bowl, an old bowling alley turned punk club, on Friday, watched mohican-haired teenagers text message each other on their cell phones and look sad, even though a Japanese hardcore band called Electric Eel Shock had come all this way to play songs like "Super Puma" for them. ![]() The other weekend my friend JR was in town.
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