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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 5771117" data-attributes="member: 14159">I went and pulled out my old 3.0 D&D books to check on something about all this.My 3e PHB, from August 2000, makes no mention of Hasbro, anywhere.  Nowhere in the credits, nowhere on the cover, nowhere in the copyright notices.  Ditto for other early 3e books.The OGL 1.0a stated it was from Wizards of the Coast, Inc., not Hasbro.From what I can tell, WotC may have bought the company on paper circa 1999, but Peter Adkinson still ran the show, and there was nothing, or very little, in the public to say that WotC was a Hasbro subsidiary instead of an independent company.  We don't know how much input Hasbro's corporate legal dept. had on the say of the release of the OGL, but superficially it looks like it might have been done entirely in-house to WotC.It does appear at least that until Adkinson left WotC (to run Gen Con apparently) that WotC was more-or-less autonomous, it wasn't until we left that it looks like it started acting like a directly controlled arm of Hasbro.</blockquote>