Tabloid of the Month

These are the graphics I put together for a series of pages I put together when I was the TSR webmaster. Called "Tabloid of the Month," they poked fun at stupid things and made dumb jokes, but I had fun doing them.

Many of these images can be sent as electronic postcards from my site.

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TSR owned By Aliens
This was a joke about how TSR was actually owned by space aliens, which is why some of the management decisions made seemed to make no sense. The picture is deliberately grainy and blurry.

TSR Webmaster Mutates Into Insectoid Monster
I posted this the month of my 25th birthday. The joke was that I had some bad cake, mutated into an insect-bodied form, and went on a rampage before vanishing into the mists of Wisconsin. The body is of a scorpion-creature 3D model I made, the head is from a photo shot for the Alternity game.

Sean Reynolds Declared "Biggest Jerk on the Internet
The fake result of a fake poll about who was the biggest jerk on the net. This was in response to me being a hardass to some people on the rec.games.frp.dnd newsgroup.

TSR Executes Editor For Producing Typo-Free Product
Posted because of complaints about typos in 2E products ... this editor (Keith Strohm, once an editor and until recently VP of Business for RPGs, now the same title but for Pokemon) was executed for "making the other editors look bad." The arm is Thomas Reid, creative director for the Star Wars RPG.

TSR Announces that Greyhawk and the Forgotten Realms are the Same World
Complete with joke-ified names of and and quotes from the creative directors of Greyhawk (D&D) and Forgotten Realms, this drove people crazy, mainly because they two "creative directors" joked that "The fans were really going to hate this one." Both FR and GH fans freaked. I always wondered why they didn't believe the other tabloid links but believed this one....

Bruce Cordell Voted "Most Beautiful Man At TSR"
This joke was inspired by the photo, which was taken before Monte & Sue Cook's wedding. In the tabloid were fake quotes from me that I was mad that I hadn't won, but I had no chance compared to Bruce. The woman behind Bruce is his wife, Dee.

TSR Webmaster Threatens to Destroy AOL
I was annoyed with AOL and my AOL account so I posted this one where I gained phenominal cosmic power and vowed to destroy AOL. An interesting bit of trivia is the picture of me was used as a model for one of the color illustrations in the Alternity Player's Handboox.

TSR Webmaster Threatens to Destroy the Earth
The next step after the above, of course.

TSR Webmaster is Really Mind-Controlled Slave of WotC Webmaster
I just threw this because I thought it would be funny if Alex, the WotC webmaster, was controlling me and making me think I had phenominal powers. This was shortly after the TSR buyout and we were moved to Seattle.

TSR Teaches Cat to DM
This was a picture shown to me by Miranda Horner, who was an editor at TSR at the time. I decided to make a Tabloid of the Month out of it.

TSR to Release "Men At Work" RPG
This was in response to West End Games' release of the Men In Black RPG, and I said that "TSR wanted to capitolize on a game with a similar acronym."