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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LuisCarlos17f" data-source="post: 7823825" data-attributes="member: 6802378">The matter is about if an IP is created by only a author or by a group. And a character from a "one-shot" work can't be like the one from a saga. And today many producers would rather to start from zero than the risk of annoying fans with the retcon or reboot of a old franchise. If WotC would the rights they could start again with another name, for example "Endless Quest" (and D&D is copyright by WotC/Hasbro). And who would buy titles by the new owner of the copyright? The industry has showed lots of examples about a famous name isn't enough, but the prestige of a franchise or IP is based in the work of the titles. There are games of Sonic the hedgehog what are forgotten, but Freedom Planet, his "spiritual successor" has got a sequel. [URL unfurl="true"]https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SpiritualSuccessor[/URL]If a movie studio or TTRPG publisher loses some copyright, they could create a new "spiritual successor". The videogame warcraft started as a Sp. Scc. of a cancelled project of a Warhammer Fantasy RTS. Angela, Thor's sister in Marvel Comics is the Sp. Scc of a character from Spawn comics.And today TTRPGs are like obsolete software. If I recover the copyright of a videogame from 35 years ago, now it is useless in the market. Today there are retroclones of D&D and we don't need a reprint of the original titles but we are collectors.</blockquote>