Brian Blume

Quick Facts

Full Name	Brian Blume
Occupation	Publisher
Date Of Birth	Jan 12, 1950(1950-01-12)
Age	74
Date Of Death	2020-03-27
Birthplace	Oak Park
Country	United States
Birth City	Illinois
Horoscope	Capricorn

Brian Blume Biography

Brian Blume is one of the most popular and richest Publisher who was born on January 12, 1950 in Oak Park, Illinois, United States. Brian Blume was born January 12th, 1950 at Oak Park, Illinois to Melvin Blume and Kathleen Blume, and grew up in Wauconda, Illinois with four brothers and three half-brothers. Blume started playing chess at age seven and went to Gettysburg when he was nine years old.

When a variety of guidelines and games for D&D were developed, Blume provided material for The Rogues Gallery, and co-authored the Dungeons and Dragons supplements Eldritch Wizardry along with Gygax in 1976. He named the character Vecna to be an anagram for Jack Vance. Blume as well as Gygax also collaborated on their own Boot Hill Role-playing Game, which was tribute to Don Kaye, who had been a big fan of Westerns. Blume also co-authored an original Panzer Warfare miniatures wargame in 1975.

At about the same time, Blume persuaded Gygax to allow Blume’s brother Kevin to purchase Melvin Blume’s 200 shares. By 1981, the Blume brothers were increasingly unhappy with Gygax’s conservative approach to the business, so using their greater stock ownership, they effectively took control by splitting TSR Hobbies into TSR, Inc., and TSR Entertainment, Inc. While Kevin Blume became president of TSR, Inc., Gygax was made president of TSR Entertainment, Inc., and the Blumes sent him to Hollywood to develop TV and movie opportunities.

With Gygax gone, the Blumes were free to move TSR Inc. into new directions. After TSR acquired SPI in March 1982, the Blumes declared that they had “bought assets but not liabilities”. Actually, SPI owed money to their printers, who refused to release the plates for printing SPI’s games until TSR repaid SPI’s bills. On a more successful note, the Blumes moved into the book trade with popular series such as Endless Quest. The Blumes also moved into toy manufacturing, metal miniatures, and even the needlecraft business. In the company’s main business of role-playing games, the Blumes oversaw the creation of the new role-playing lines Dragonlance and Marvel Super Heroes. However, all of these new ventures were expensive, and by 1984, although TSR Inc. was the games industry leader, grossing $30 million, it was barely breaking even and had debts of $1.5 million. The Blume brothers began to shop around for someone to buy the company.

Just as the new company was getting ready to meet demand, an unexpected catastrophe occurred. Don Kaye, although only 36, passed away suddenly from an attack on the heart. Kaye did not make any specific provisions in his will with regard to his share of one-third of the company, therefore his portion of TSR was passed on into his wife Donna. The company was founded in July of

1975. Gygax as well as Blume reorganized their business from a partnership into a company known as TSR Hobbies and with Gygax as the president. Gygax had 150 shares and Blume was the owner of the remaining 100 shares. Both could buy as many as 700 shares at any time in the near future. However, TSR Hobbies had nothing to publish -the company was not even a publisher – D&D was part of the three-way partnership that was Tactical Studies Rules, and neither Gygax nor Blume had enough money to purchase the shares owned by Donna Kaye. Blume was able to convince the reluctant Gygax to let his dad, Melvin Blume, to purchase Donna’s share. it was changed to 200 shares of TSR Hobbies. Additionally, Brian bought another 140 shares. In addition, the Blumes and Gygax formed the company’s board of directors, which was composed of three members.

Brian Blume Net Worth

Brian Blume is one of the richest Publisher from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Brian Blume 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Brian John Blume (January 12 1950 – February 27 20th, 2020) was a game designer and a writer mostly known in the business world as an ex-business associate with Gary Gygax at TSR, Inc. which was the producer of the fantasy- based role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons.

Blume was introduced to Gary Gygax at the Gen Con game convention in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. Gygax along with his pal Don Kaye had recently formed Tactical Studies Rules in Lake Geneva to launch an entirely new kind of game which Gygax as well as Dave Arneson had developed, Dungeons & Dragons. Gygax along with Kaye had each contributed $1,000 in the venture, however they did not have enough funds to produce the game. Then, in December of 1973 Blume agreed to join the business with a $2,000 investment. The company made use of Blume’s funds and the three of them printed 1000 copies of the game, and then the first copies were sold in January 1974. Blume and Gygax were also the co- authors of their own Warriors of Mars miniatures wargame adaptation. At the time of the end of 1974 the first edition of D&D was sold out and the demand of the game had been increasing.

Brian met Victoria Miller and married her in 1980.

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