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====Gygax departs==== Shortly after the release of the boxed set, Gygax discovered that while he had been in Hollywood, TSR had run into serious financial difficulties.<ref>Gygax: "I was alerted to a problem: Kevin Blume was shopping TSR on the street in New York City. I flew back from the West Coast, and discovered the corporation was in debt to the bank the tune of circa $1.5 million". {{cite web | title = Gary Gygax: Q & A (Part XII, Page 28) | publisher = EN World | date = 2007-01-21 | url = http://www.enworld.org/forum/archive-threads/171753-gary-gygax-q-part-xii-28.html | access-date = 2009-03-15 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110614223453/http://www.enworld.org/forum/archive-threads/171753-gary-gygax-q-part-xii-28.html | archive-date = 2011-06-14 | url-status = dead}}</ref> Returning to Lake Geneva, Gygax managed to get TSR back on firm financial footing, but different visions of TSR's future caused a power struggle within the company, and Gygax was forced out of TSR on December 31, 1985.<ref>{{Cite web | last = Rausch | first = Allen | title = Magic & Memories: The Complete History of Dungeons & Dragons - Part II | publisher = Game Spy | date = 2004-08-16 | url = http://pc.gamespy.com/articles/539/539197p5.html | access-date = 2011-01-30}}</ref>
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