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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Argyle King" data-source="post: 9701950" data-attributes="member: 58416">I agree.I had neither said nor implied that it was.My comment was that D&D has a catalog of IP that could be licensed out. Say that does not mean it must be licensed out in its entirety. How thinly IP is sliced for a contractual agreement is up to WotC.The reason that I used music in Supernatural as an example is because it is an example that illustrates how specific a license can be made to be if so desired. Similarly, there are sone movies that specify that a particular song can be used but only for 1 particular scene or for a specified number of minutes within the movie.I also used Spiderman as an example because that's an example of one specific character from Marvel being licensed out in a way that did not include other parts of Marvel.I am not suggesting that WotC should go that far, but they could if they wanted to do so. "Sure, you can use a Beholder in your project, but it can only appear on screen X amount of times." "You can write a Ravenloft supplement, but we retain creative control and must approval of how you handle Strahd before anything is released."On the other hand, I do think it could be cool if a particular setting was allowed to be used by another system that may better fit the sensibilities and aesthetics of a particular setting better than contemporary D&D.</blockquote>