Argot: "TSR writing"
TSR Writing: When different sections of your book read like they were written by different people, who wrote many different books that were then mashed together and presented as one.
Takes its name from the defunct TSR company, who often adopted the policy of assiging different writers to different sections of their games, then just compiling everything together, regardless of tonal shifts or inconsistencies. Led some strange results, such as Dungeons & Dragons (2nd edition) having text like "D&D is not a combat game" just after a section on "non-weapon proficiencies"... or a sci-fi game like Star Frontiers having flying baboon women and evil space worms in one chapter, then references to John Brunner and Stanislaw Lem in the next.
Compare Conway's Law.
Takes its name from the defunct TSR company, who often adopted the policy of assiging different writers to different sections of their games, then just compiling everything together, regardless of tonal shifts or inconsistencies. Led some strange results, such as Dungeons & Dragons (2nd edition) having text like "D&D is not a combat game" just after a section on "non-weapon proficiencies"... or a sci-fi game like Star Frontiers having flying baboon women and evil space worms in one chapter, then references to John Brunner and Stanislaw Lem in the next.
Compare Conway's Law.