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<blockquote data-quote="Ratskinner" data-source="post: 7754277" data-attributes="member: 6688937">Obviously this is total speculation on my part, but I recall soon after WotC bought D&amp;D way back in the before time, that D&amp;Ders were outraged and declaring the apocalypse because for sure WotC was going to drop all the old settings and start releasing Magic&nbsp; planes as settings....I also seem to recall WotC publicly stating that they had no intention of crossing the streams at that time. Whether that desire to keep them separate was part of a &quot;calm down, people&quot; strategy or an effort to protect the MtG brand (which was and I believe still is doing way way better that D&amp;D has ever done) from contamination by this flagging property (don't forget another company had gone belly up trying to work D&amp;D) is an unknown for me.Either way, I think that initial reaction played a part in their conspicuously avoiding it at first, then it just became something that wasn't done, then it became something they could play with in UA articles, and now its something that people are asking &quot;Why did they wait 20 years to do this?&quot;IMO, AFAICT</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ratskinner, post: 7754277, member: 6688937"] Obviously this is total speculation on my part, but I recall soon after WotC bought D&D way back in the before time, that D&Ders were outraged and declaring the apocalypse because for sure WotC was going to drop all the old settings and start releasing Magic planes as settings....I also seem to recall WotC publicly stating that they had no intention of crossing the streams at that time. Whether that desire to keep them separate was part of a "calm down, people" strategy or an effort to protect the MtG brand (which was and I believe still is doing way way better that D&D has ever done) from contamination by this flagging property (don't forget another company had gone belly up trying to work D&D) is an unknown for me. Either way, I think that initial reaction played a part in their conspicuously avoiding it at first, then it just became something that wasn't done, then it became something they could play with in UA articles, and now its something that people are asking "Why did they wait 20 years to do this?" IMO, AFAICT [/QUOTE]

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