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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Staffan" data-source="post: 9769286" data-attributes="member: 907"><p>They sold the others off some time before acquiring TSR. I can't be hedgehogged to look up the actual date, but there was definitely a gap of like a year or two where Wizards didn't publish any RPGs at all. Basically their beancounters told them "Why are you spending money on these products that give you marginal-at-best ROI, instead of spending it on Magic and Pokémon which are bringing in HUGE dollars?" So they sold off SLA Industries, Ars Magica, Talislanta, and Everway (and maybe something I forgot), making sure they went to companies that could actually do something with them. I believe they kept Primal Order because that was Peter Adkison's own baby, the reason he started Wizards in the first place, but it wasn't like they were doing anything with it. Eventually he bought it off them some time after he left Hasbro.</p></blockquote><p></p>