Live From The Bunker 853: WonderFilled Meltdown!
Standing at the end after watching the beginning.
This was Ground Zero -- where it all started four years ago this month.
On June 23, 2021 we spoke with Ernie Gygax about the just-announced return of TSR Games. Sort of. It was a new entity that would be designing role-playing games in the tradition of his father's classic Dungeons & Dragons.
But along the way, some activist types took a few things Ernie said, shared them out of context, and started a Cancel Cult firestorm that destroyed everything. Everyone associated with the new GiantLands RPG was tainted, and the new TSR fell apart amidst financial struggles and a lawsuit from Wizards of the Coast.
Fast-forward to the end of June 2025, when the last surviving member of the GiantLands creative team, Stephen Dinehart, released a video that's one for the history books, and he's attempting to rewrite history in a radical, unhinged delusional rant blaming people who had nothing to do with his company's demise.
So, it seems since we were there at the beginning, we should be there for the end.
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