 When Random House returned an unexpectedly high percentage of unsold stock, including the year's inventory of unsold novels and sets of "Dragon Dice", and charged a fee of several million dollars, TSR found itself in a cash crunch.With no cash, TSR was unable to pay their printing and shipping bills, and the logistics company that handled TSR's pre-press, printing, warehousing, and shipping refused to do any more work.Since the logistics company had the production plates for key products such as core "D&D" books, there was no means of printing or shipping core products to generate income or secure short-term financing.