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<blockquote data-quote="Enevhar Aldarion" data-source="post: 8227904" data-attributes="member: 6818233">Maybe something someone had a small part in or contributed to creatively, so they get their name thrown in the credits. Hollywood does that too with directors and producers or screenwriters who had their entire script thrown out or rewritten before they were fired. Big deal. If a book comes out with these missing adventures, she will get a mention in the credits at the most, and we will never know how much or how little from her scrapped project ever gets in print.For example, all of the creation of 5E. Monte Cook was the lead designer for a few months before he bailed on the project, so he gets into the credits, but he is not credited with making 5E, nor should he be.And yeah, the publishing world is weird and full of secrets. We have no clue what kind of contracts any of them had. Did they sell their adventures outright to WotC, like it was done in the older days? Did they retain any rights after turning it in? Were they on the payroll or only freelancing? If something is not published after a certain amount of time, do they get their rights back to their work?And sure, some of Candlekeep was stuff cut from somewhere else, including maybe any of the adventures by a female writer being cut from Welch's project and put in there instead.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Enevhar Aldarion, post: 8227904, member: 6818233"] Maybe something someone had a small part in or contributed to creatively, so they get their name thrown in the credits. Hollywood does that too with directors and producers or screenwriters who had their entire script thrown out or rewritten before they were fired. Big deal. If a book comes out with these missing adventures, she will get a mention in the credits at the most, and we will never know how much or how little from her scrapped project ever gets in print. For example, all of the creation of 5E. Monte Cook was the lead designer for a few months before he bailed on the project, so he gets into the credits, but he is not credited with making 5E, nor should he be. And yeah, the publishing world is weird and full of secrets. We have no clue what kind of contracts any of them had. Did they sell their adventures outright to WotC, like it was done in the older days? Did they retain any rights after turning it in? Were they on the payroll or only freelancing? If something is not published after a certain amount of time, do they get their rights back to their work? And sure, some of Candlekeep was stuff cut from somewhere else, including maybe any of the adventures by a female writer being cut from Welch's project and put in there instead. [/QUOTE]

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