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<blockquote data-quote="Homicidal_Squirrel" data-source="post: 6202023" data-attributes="member: 6750031"><p>Yup, and WoTC also has to protect their IP in regards to the content of any novels or short stories they publish. They are very careful, as they should be, to not damage the story lines of their various characters and campaign settings. </p><p></p><p>I remember reading on the WoTC boards a few years ago some guy had posted a thread about having submitted a short story to WoTC and it got rejected. He posted the story in the thread. The story was set in the Forgotten Realms, and it included Elminster. The story was basically the author's character, a female drow mage-thief -possibly assassin, curb stomping Elminster the main character climbed on a tree and hid. Elminster, strolling through the woods, as all powerful mages do, gets surprised and totally owned by the author's character. Fortunately Elminster was able to get away from this mighty drow of awesome-sauce assassin. </p><p></p><p>I'm guessing that WoTC generally has an idea of what they want and don't want in a story. Accepting unsolicited works makes it much harder for them to control the direction they want a particular kind to go in. Could you imagine if that drow curb stomping Elminster story for published? What would that have some to the FR line of novels and products? It's an easy way to damage the IP.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Homicidal_Squirrel, post: 6202023, member: 6750031"] Yup, and WoTC also has to protect their IP in regards to the content of any novels or short stories they publish. They are very careful, as they should be, to not damage the story lines of their various characters and campaign settings. I remember reading on the WoTC boards a few years ago some guy had posted a thread about having submitted a short story to WoTC and it got rejected. He posted the story in the thread. The story was set in the Forgotten Realms, and it included Elminster. The story was basically the author's character, a female drow mage-thief -possibly assassin, curb stomping Elminster the main character climbed on a tree and hid. Elminster, strolling through the woods, as all powerful mages do, gets surprised and totally owned by the author's character. Fortunately Elminster was able to get away from this mighty drow of awesome-sauce assassin. I'm guessing that WoTC generally has an idea of what they want and don't want in a story. Accepting unsolicited works makes it much harder for them to control the direction they want a particular kind to go in. Could you imagine if that drow curb stomping Elminster story for published? What would that have some to the FR line of novels and products? It's an easy way to damage the IP. [/QUOTE]
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