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Ed Greenwood's $5K Contract To Sell The Forgotten Realms
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<blockquote data-quote="humble minion" data-source="post: 8790108" data-attributes="member: 5948"><p>I dont think Ed’s got all that much to regret about the original FR sale to be honest. He’s made it into a multi-decade long career after all, novels and supplements. And a lot of the size and scope and (in D&D circles) ubiquity of FR is due to the work of a multitude of others in the setting, from Salvatore to Black Isle Studios. I’m certainly not trying to minimise Greenwood’s initial creation of the Realms, but I think the article kinda implicitly assumes that FR would have been just as big a success if he’d refused to sell it and published it independently as a fantasy heartbreaker in the 80s sometime. The only reason the FR IP has value is because TSR made it so. TSR made bank off that $5k, sure - but in the longer run, I think Greenwood would be happy with his deal. It turned him into an legendary elder statesman, made sure he’d never be out of work in what can be a pretty brutal industry. Even now, his name on the cover can help sell 3pp books. FR now is worth much more than the $5k (inflation adjusted) of course, but I suspect that deal was a pretty handy loss leader for Greenwood, from a business point of view.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="humble minion, post: 8790108, member: 5948"] I dont think Ed’s got all that much to regret about the original FR sale to be honest. He’s made it into a multi-decade long career after all, novels and supplements. And a lot of the size and scope and (in D&D circles) ubiquity of FR is due to the work of a multitude of others in the setting, from Salvatore to Black Isle Studios. I’m certainly not trying to minimise Greenwood’s initial creation of the Realms, but I think the article kinda implicitly assumes that FR would have been just as big a success if he’d refused to sell it and published it independently as a fantasy heartbreaker in the 80s sometime. The only reason the FR IP has value is because TSR made it so. TSR made bank off that $5k, sure - but in the longer run, I think Greenwood would be happy with his deal. It turned him into an legendary elder statesman, made sure he’d never be out of work in what can be a pretty brutal industry. Even now, his name on the cover can help sell 3pp books. FR now is worth much more than the $5k (inflation adjusted) of course, but I suspect that deal was a pretty handy loss leader for Greenwood, from a business point of view. [/QUOTE]
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