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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steel_Wind" data-source="post: 3654733" data-attributes="member: 20741">There was a CCG. I cannot imagine that Hasbro did not ask for an RPG license, as it is a natural stepping stone game to get kids on the path to D&D. So I think it was requested - and denied.And that's the regrettable part. It's not that I really want to play a "Wizarding World" campaign - but we'd all be well served by a million kids being dumped into the hobby by a new gateway game.I would speculate that Ms. Rowling did not like the idea as FRPG systems are all about quantifying and explaining magic and magical systems in the world. Inevitably, that reduces the mysterious to the known and inherently limits the author in terms of their creativity.If I was writing an active series of books based upon the unknown and permitted unlimited scope in terms of what I wanted magic to be able to do and not do - I wouldn't want it codified either folks.And the inevitable "Hogwarts" setting book. Complete with maps and explanations as to how the school works and classes and power levels based on year you are in. Etc.. It really does constrain an author and make it feel like somebody else has taken over your IP. For the possible return - she's vastly too wealthy to want the headaches it would cause.Seeing as she does not need the money in the least, I'm not real confident that we will ever see one. Mind you, if she is truly done with her world (and I think she is leaving herself a way to come back to it in ten years or so) she may license it to Hasbro/WotC, now that she does not have to write in the world or feel constrained by what an RPG system would depict as the "rules".</blockquote>

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