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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kichwas" data-source="post: 1396428" data-attributes="member: 891">Lets say I had been one of those freelancers and had authored up an amazingly good article on DMing political intrigues in a freeform manner.In said article I had quoted an assortment of rules one could use from 1E AD&D, as well as offered up some new rules to go alongside.Now along comes Publisher X doing a book on gamemastering for it's highly popular RPG and it's 15 or so years later and I want to grab the project...I know my best work is sitting there in an old Dragon, and I want to take it, update it to RPG-X, and republush it.If I still have second rights I can do this, but if I sold the thing off fully I'm at a loss. Not only that but if I write something original but a little too similar for Publisher-X, I and they might get sued by Hasbro (witness how Gygax got sued over Dangerous Journeys - and all he did was write in the same genre as he had for TSR)...I remember hearing some frustration from the authors after 3E came out over the parts that got cut for space that they wished they'd not sent in and lost rights to...</blockquote>