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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mach2.5" data-source="post: 1245464" data-attributes="member: 12834">White Wolf, when it purchased the liscense to produce Ravenloft setting material, received a very astounding deal on the liscense agreement. WOTC does not issue liscenses in the same way any longer, unfortunately. They are sightly more costly (most rumors put the innitial liscense purchase at around 20,000, with the additional rumor of yearly costs to be incured as well, along with marginal profit fees for additional material published by the 3rd party) with WOTC getting the rights to publish the 'core booklet'. Since its the core book of any setting that nets the most sales, the fan base for a setting must be incredibly huge in order to garner the kind of sales neccessary to cover the costs of aquiring a liscense agreement with WOTC. Most people will buy the core book, no doubt. But the fan base may not be in high enough numbers to support the 3rd party through the publishing of additional supplements.The saying: "No one is getting rich in the RPG industry." holds thrice as much weight when your talking about liscenses from WOTC under their current framework.</blockquote>