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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TiQuinn" data-source="post: 9427724" data-attributes="member: 4871">I don't necessarily think of it as a terrible mistake, more of a "what could have been." One has to put themselves in the shoes of someone cares about licensing...not someone who cares about the actual stories. To them, whether it's Buck Rogers or Lord of the Rings or something else, there's just a question of what can I do with this material, what products can I create, and what's it gonna cost me for the right to do so. Novels were HUGE for TSR, so having that avenue cut off to them probably was a deal breaker. And like you said...Lord of the Rings was big a decade or so ago at that time. The last animated tv show was I think Return of the King in 1980? Buck Rogers went off of TV in 1981 and was in syndication.And to be even more fair, it's not like Lord of the Rings RPGs that did get released have set the world aflame, either.</blockquote>