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<blockquote data-quote="Kae'Yoss" data-source="post: 3043524" data-attributes="member: 4134"><p>I'm just holding Bloodwalk, one of the most recent FR novels. It says "Published by Wizards of the Coast, INc. Forgotten Realms, Wizards of the Coast, and their respective logos are trademarks of WIzards of the Coast, INc., in the U.S.A: and other countries.</p><p></p><p>I con't see any company mentioned in there except Wizards.</p><p></p><p>In Lost Empires, a pretty recent FR supplement, there are a couple of distributors mentioned, but I don't think they have any rights to it.</p><p></p><p>Besides, you were saying they could keep distributing novels even if they stop doing the supplements. How is this relevant if you think they own the setting but not the novel rights? Wouldn't it be logical to stop the novels (because of the rights issues) but not the supplements?</p><p></p><p>Besides, as I said, even if there were rights issues, they can't be enough stop making a product. They would have stopped long ago then.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Remember when they discontinued all those settings? Ravenloft was given away, dragonlance was given away, Dark Sun, Mystara, Spelljammer, and others were completely abandoned (aside from fan projects) and Planescape gets a treatment not unlike GreyHawk gets.</p><p></p><p>They kept making new editions and supplements for the Realms. Why would they do that if the Realms wasn't their best racing horse?</p><p></p><p>And of course, there are the novels. There's something approaching 200 novels for the Realms - more than for the next three ranking settings combined - and the number keeps growing. Why would they commission or write that many novels for something that doesn't generate a lot of income?</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Since when do lawyers make business decisions? </p><p></p><p>Anyway, I think the two product lines are connected: The novels increase the sales for RPG material, and the RPG material increases the novels' sales. It's cool to read about characters in a rich, detailed gaming world, and then being able to explore that very world, or read novels about characters that live in the very world you play each week.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kae'Yoss, post: 3043524, member: 4134"] I'm just holding Bloodwalk, one of the most recent FR novels. It says "Published by Wizards of the Coast, INc. Forgotten Realms, Wizards of the Coast, and their respective logos are trademarks of WIzards of the Coast, INc., in the U.S.A: and other countries. I con't see any company mentioned in there except Wizards. In Lost Empires, a pretty recent FR supplement, there are a couple of distributors mentioned, but I don't think they have any rights to it. Besides, you were saying they could keep distributing novels even if they stop doing the supplements. How is this relevant if you think they own the setting but not the novel rights? Wouldn't it be logical to stop the novels (because of the rights issues) but not the supplements? Besides, as I said, even if there were rights issues, they can't be enough stop making a product. They would have stopped long ago then. Remember when they discontinued all those settings? Ravenloft was given away, dragonlance was given away, Dark Sun, Mystara, Spelljammer, and others were completely abandoned (aside from fan projects) and Planescape gets a treatment not unlike GreyHawk gets. They kept making new editions and supplements for the Realms. Why would they do that if the Realms wasn't their best racing horse? And of course, there are the novels. There's something approaching 200 novels for the Realms - more than for the next three ranking settings combined - and the number keeps growing. Why would they commission or write that many novels for something that doesn't generate a lot of income? Since when do lawyers make business decisions? Anyway, I think the two product lines are connected: The novels increase the sales for RPG material, and the RPG material increases the novels' sales. It's cool to read about characters in a rich, detailed gaming world, and then being able to explore that very world, or read novels about characters that live in the very world you play each week. [/QUOTE]
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