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Message: <blockquote data-quote="shadzar" data-source="post: 5426882" data-attributes="member: 6667746">I dont think D&D is family oriented enough for HASBRO to want to take unto its own people, so it needs WotC as the niche creators to maintain it, unless it were to turn it into the Descent/HeroQuest (since it owns the game until 2015) type of board game which it knows good.That being said all the other things would fall to the wayside.The fan community would probably be hurt a little, OGL and the like or whatever there is for the recent editions would probably have no support, so 4th edition material wouldnt exist from other companies as the license can be revoked? 3rd edition would be able to go on, because that OGL seems irrevocable, which means Pathfinder I think would have no problems and may take over due to it being the closest to 3rd edition with a full ruleset?Retro-clones would still be around as long as the HASBRO legal team doesn't deem them a threat. Considering D&D would effectively be off the market and those older editions the retro clones emulate would likely be of no concern as HASBRO wouldnt devote attention to them. Again take HeroQuest and how they allow a few websites to reproduce the contents except for making the boards and minis, and host them on those websites from all the expansions down to the rules, "dungeon tiles", and cards.Why would the industry change? It might start to cannibalize itself and the winner become the next "D&D". Other companies would continue on as they have been. Unles they have something licensed that HASBRO takes that license away when closing the doors to WotC, there really shouldn't be panic in the streets.Fans might panic in the strets not knowing what to do and where they are going to spend their money, but it might develop better player created content without having to rely on published content to play; IF they continued to play.Hope I didnt miss anything in your additional quandries.</blockquote>

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