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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kuje31" data-source="post: 2393772" data-attributes="member: 16987">Ed posted this to me today since I wanted to know how this stood:"Hello, all. Kuje, Ed wants you to know that although most of the “newer” TSR employees (and Rich was one of those) and of course all later WotC employees aren’t privy to the precise details of the Realms purchase agreement, and operate on the basis of whatever they’ve been told it is, everything has since been quietly and privately cleared up on this front. Er. Ed hopes.However, Rich’s words, that you quoted in your post, are an accurate description of how things really do generally work, on a day-to-day basis. Which is fairly practical, and of course explains why inconsistencies sometimes creep in. Back around 1990 this sort thing made Ed tear his hair out. Now everyone’s more mellow, and tries to work together, and when Realmslore glitches occur, everyone tries to smooth it over."Notice that Ed did not say that his words are not canon. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Edit: One of his players further said this later:On July 9, 2005 THO said: Understood, Kuje.Please pass on to those posters you and Faraer have been jousting with, this from me:It’s my firm belief that Ed understands his contract quite well. It’s a short, simple document, as legal contracts go (and Ed has had legal training, and in his time has signed literally hundreds of publishing-related contracts; there aren’t all that many writers alive and active today who have been involved in more publications than Ed has), and I have also read it and its amendments, and understood them quite well. They just aren’t that complicated, folks. (Moreover, I know Ed has seen the exact same pages I have, because he passed them on to me.)He passed them on not just to me, but to all of his original players, at the request of TSR, because all of us were required to “sign off” on having read and understood them. All of us were telephoned by TSR legal representatives (who told us they were taping the calls) to make sure we fully understood what we were signing.We also each had to sign legal release forms for our Knights characters, formally recognizing that TSR now owned the characters we played (which Ed had created, named, and crafted back histories for, anyway), and could be published without any obligation to us. (Interestingly, those forms made mention of “payment of one (1) U.S. dollar” per character, to give the release legal force, and TSR never paid us those dollars. Ed did, but I don’t think they ever paid him.) Another bit of trivia: if action or “bendable/poseable” figurines, or tabletop or collectible miniatures, of the Knights of Myth Drannor characters are ever released, John Hunter (who played Florin) is entitled to one free Florin figure, "delivered free into his hands."No offense to Rich Baker, whom I’m sure is a nice person and a smart man, but he wasn’t yet a TSR employee when all of this occurred, and so couldn’t have been privy to any of it.love to all,THO</blockquote>

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