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<blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 729334" data-attributes="member: 158">I look at it differently.COULD anyone have bought them at the time??? Reading Ryan Dancey's essay on hs visit to TSR in 1997 reveals a lot. Namely, in order to shore up the rights, D&amp;D's copyrights and trademarks had been tied up in very nasty knots:&nbsp;Wizards of the Coast in 1997 (and today) have one hell of a legal staff. This is a staff that knows their stuff. I have to ask whether White Wolf, or Steve Jackson Games, or any other publisher at the time had both the cash on hand and the legal fire-power for hire to settle all of the convoluted agreements, securities, and contracts, in order to take claim to the property.If so, we would have seen D&amp;D live. If not, we would have seen D&amp;D do what countless other properties have done over the decades: languish in legal limbo, with the actual owners wanting to take no chance with the property, and no one wanting to take the incentive to try.Sometimes, it takes a combination of things to make an event happen, and I have to wonder if those things were necessarily present anywhere else in 1997.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Henry, post: 729334, member: 158"] I look at it differently. COULD anyone have bought them at the time??? Reading Ryan Dancey's essay on hs visit to TSR in 1997 reveals a lot. Namely, in order to shore up the rights, D&D's copyrights and trademarks had been tied up in very nasty knots: Wizards of the Coast in 1997 (and today) have one hell of a legal staff. This is a staff that knows their stuff. I have to ask whether White Wolf, or Steve Jackson Games, or any other publisher at the time had both the cash on hand and the legal fire-power for hire to settle all of the convoluted agreements, securities, and contracts, in order to take claim to the property. If so, we would have seen D&D live. If not, we would have seen D&D do what countless other properties have done over the decades: languish in legal limbo, with the actual owners wanting to take no chance with the property, and no one wanting to take the incentive to try. Sometimes, it takes a combination of things to make an event happen, and I have to wonder if those things were necessarily present anywhere else in 1997. [/QUOTE]

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