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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Staffan" data-source="post: 6486164" data-attributes="member: 907">I'm not privy to the contracts between Wizards and Sasquatch (or Kobold for that matter), but note that the adventure books are being released by Wizards. It's not a case of Sasquatch being licensed to make books for D&D and publish them on their own, it's a case of Wizards hiring Sasquatch to write stuff which Wizards will then publish. This kind of freelance stuff has been going on in the game publishing world forever, except the publisher usually hires individual freelancers instead of companies. But I'd be surprised if Sasquatch has any direct stake in the sales of Princes of the Apocalypse - they delivered their manuscript to Wizards, and Wizards delivered money to Sasquatch. It is of course possible that there are some sort of royalties involved, but my understanding is that that kind of thing is exceedingly rare in the gaming world. Of course they have an indirect stake in that good sales makes it more likely that they'll be hired again, but no direct stake.The situation is different with Gale Force 9, which as I understand it does publish licensed products under their own name.</blockquote>