and accepted investment from Blume's father Melvin. When Kaye died suddenly in 1975, the Tactical Studies Rules partnership restructured into TSR Hobbies, Inc. Dungeons & Dragons is generally considered the first tabletop role-playing game (TTRPG), and established the genre. Needing financing to bring their new game to market, Gygax and Kaye brought in Brian Blume in December as an equal partner. Gygax had been unable to find a publisher for D&D, a new type of game he and Dave Arneson were co-developing, so he founded the new company with Kaye to self-publish their products. Its earliest incarnation, Tactical Studies Rules, was founded in October 1973 by Gary Gygax and Don Kaye. was an American game publishing company, best known as the original publisher of Dungeons & Dragons ( D&D).
Gary Gygax, Brian Blume, Lorraine Williams
