Brian John Blume was an American game designer and writer, principally known as a former business partner of Gary Gygax at TSR, Inc.
13 Facts About Brian Blume
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Brian Blume was born January 12,1950, in Oak Park, Illinois to Melvin and Kathleen Blume, and grew up in Wauconda, Illinois with four brothers and three half-brothers.
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Brian Blume was fascinated by history in junior high school and was involved in miniature wargaming in high school.
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Brian Blume met Gary Gygax at the Gen Con game convention in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin.
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In December 1973, Brian Blume offered to become an equal partner in the company for an investment of $2,000.
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In July 1975, Gygax and Brian Blume reorganized their company from a partnership to a corporation called TSR Hobbies, with Gygax as president.
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Gygax owned 150 shares, Brian Blume owned the other 100 shares, and both had the option to buy up to 700 shares at any time in the future.
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Brian Blume persuaded a reluctant Gygax to allow his father, Melvin Brian Blume, to buy Donna's share, and that was converted to 200 shares in TSR Hobbies.
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Shortly afterward, Brian Blume received a blind mailing of the first issue of the monthly newsletter Owl and Weasel from Games Workshop, recently formed by Ian Livingstone and Steve Jackson.
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The Brian Blume brothers began to shop around for someone to buy the company.
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Brian Blume appointed himself president and CEO, and in order to bring some financial stability to TSR, he hired a company manager, Lorraine Williams, who dismissed the three outside directors.
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Brian Blume later worked as a cartographer, making maps for numerous White Wolf supplements.
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Brian Blume died on March 27,2020, at the Lakeland Nursing Home in Elkhorn, Wisconsin from Lewy Body Dementia and Parkinson's disease.