What WotC licenses remain?

[freebfrost]

OK, Dragon and Dungeon are gone as is the Dragonlance license. And CMP.

What D&D licenses remain out there at this point? I know Kenzer has one for "old" AD&D, but are there any remaining 3.x licencees out there now?

 

[T. Foster]

The d20 System Trademark License would seem to be the biggie.

 

[smootrk]

Oriental Adventures is out there for the time being.

 

[Dav]

Oriental Adventures is out there for the time being.

Where is it?

 

[Grimstaff]

What about Kenzer's D&D license for Kalamar and Hackmaster? Or has that been gone a long time now?

I can't keep up with these things...

 

[smootrk]

AEG produces the Rokugan setting which is Legend of the Five Rings done in D20 mode. They will likely have to stop using D&D mechanics and go back to their proprietary mechanics. The most recent Rokugan books came out with details for both game systems.

 

[EditorBFG]

AEG, right? With Rokugan?

That's a more complex situation, because to my recollection WotC no longer owns Legend of the Five Rings.

 

[mhensley]

I believe Kenzer still has the license to do HackMaster. I guess you can also count their license to do Kalamar stuff as official D&D material.

 

[Nyeshet]

OA is not a significant license at present. In fact, it could be non-renewed and nothing would happen, as nothing has been done with it since it was published for 3e 4-5 years ago. Rokugan is not part of OA. In fact, I think they have in recent years re-released Rokugan under a different (non-d20) system, so there is even less reason a withholding of the OA license would do anything.

 

[trancejeremy]

The Kenzer license is supposedly part of a settlement/agreement with WOTC over the reprinting of the KODT comics in the Dragon Magazine archive. So presumably that's safe.

The real biggies is the d20 license itself (as already said). Unlike the OGL, the d20 license can be revoked at any time. I'm guessing they won't, because at this point, there are so few d20 companies left, it doesn't really matter anymore. But you never know, since most of the remaining ones specialize in the sort of thing that WOTC seemingly wants to get into (Adventure modules).

If I were one of those remaining d20 companies, I would start branching out into other systems right now, just to be safe. (Most of them have, Green Ronin/Mongoose)