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<blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 3816475" data-attributes="member: 22424">That's a good question. My gut feeling is &quot;yes&quot;, but I might be wrong about that. But then, what I think is largely irrelevant - what do Hasbro think? In any case, I suspect they would let the brand die, rather than let it go.So, I think the only way D&amp;D will ever not be bound to Hasbro is if some D&amp;D fan with a huge amount of money approaches Hasbro with an offer to pay much more than it's actually worth. I'm not sure that that's actually a bad thing - I feel the current arrangement actually does work reasonably well for D&amp;D.They might, potentially, grant a license to someone else to develop a new tabletop RPG. I wonder if anyone would take such a thing on, though - they would have to pay licensing fees, agree to content oversight, and then face the big risk that if they make a success of it then Hasbro might choose not to renew the license five years down the line. Would it not be better, then, to just use the OGL to create your own game whole-cloth, especially if D&amp;D is no longer out there to compete with?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="delericho, post: 3816475, member: 22424"] That's a good question. My gut feeling is "yes", but I might be wrong about that. But then, what I think is largely irrelevant - what do Hasbro think? In any case, I suspect they would let the brand die, rather than let it go. So, I think the only way D&D will ever [i]not[/i] be bound to Hasbro is if some D&D fan with a huge amount of money approaches Hasbro with an offer to pay [i]much[/i] more than it's actually worth. I'm not sure that that's actually a bad thing - I feel the current arrangement actually does work reasonably well for D&D. They might, potentially, grant a license to someone else to develop a new tabletop RPG. I wonder if anyone would take such a thing on, though - they would have to pay licensing fees, agree to content oversight, and then face the big risk that if they make a success of it then Hasbro might choose not to renew the license five years down the line. Would it not be better, then, to just use the OGL to create your own game whole-cloth, especially if D&D is no longer out there to compete with? [/QUOTE]

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