Michael Nesmith inheritance from his mother's Liquid Paper fortune in 1980 eased those concerns. In a 1980 interview with "Playboy", he said of that time: "I had to start telling little tales to the tax man while they were putting tags on the furniture." While Nesmith had continued to produce his compositions with the Monkees, he withheld many of the songs from the final Monkees albums, only to release them on his post-Monkees solo records. Nesmith did not participate in the Monkees' 20th-anniversary reunion. However, he did appear during an encore with the other three members at the Greek Theatre on September
Bruce Nesmith Team was later expanded to also include Margaret Weis, Douglas Niles, Bruce Nesmith, Mike Breault, Roger Moore, Laura Hickman, Linda Bakk, Michael Dobson and Garry Spiegle. Nesmith designed "" (1990), which extended the ideas behind the Hickmans' original "Ravenloft" adventure and sought to make "AD&D" competitive with games like "Call of Cthulhu" and "Chill". Nesmith and Andria Hayday designed the "DragonStrike" board game, which was published by TSR, Inc. His other design work for "D&D" includes "The War Rafts of Kron" (1984), "Sabre River" (1984), "Dragons of Desolation" (1984), "Master Player Screen Featuring The Spindle" (1985), "The Book of Lairs