What WotC licenses remain?

[lrsach01]

But then, why cancel Dragon and Dungeon? Once they're gone, they basically can't be brought back (for market reasons),

Sure you can bring it back. Magazines have died and brought back before. Will it be as successful as before? That's the real question.

 

[diaglo]

J!nx has a T-shirt license. There may be another apparel license out there as well.

and bumper stickers too iirc. i bought the t shirts and the bumper stickers. i just can't remember if i got them both from J!nx.

also Midnight Syndicate cut a D&D Cd/DvD.

and there is the Atari license for the computer games. i think

who did the Scourge of the World .. video/computer Game?


Blackmoor, Kenzer/Hackmaster, and OA/Rokugan are the only other ones i can think of offhand.

edit: now that MWP/Sovereign Press got yanked on the DL stuff

 

[Treebore]

WotC acquired the L5R IP when they bought Ryan Dancey's company, Five Ring Publishing Group, the original producer of L5R TCG. After the sale, WotC continued to honor the licensing agreement made between FRPG and AEG.

Skip ahead a few years, after WotC published the new OA, they sold the IP to AEG, who promised to support OA for a period of time.

OK. Just everything I have read over at AEG talks like they have owned L5R since 1E, which also gave me the impression has been since the late 90's.

Guess thats what I get for only paying attention to part of only one side of the story.

 

[Desdichado]

AEG, right? With Rokugan?

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

Yeah, but AEG doesn't and never has owned Oriental Adventures--which is required for Rokugan d20.

 

[Treebore]

Yeah, but AEG doesn't and never has owned Oriental Adventures--which is required for Rokugan d20.

No it isn't. I played in a Rokugan d20 game for over six months every Friday (and often Saturday, we were having that much fun) and we NEVER referenced OA. In fact I was the only one who owned OA, and like I have said, I wasn't the DM.

 

[Mark CMG]

J!nx has a T-shirt license. There may be another apparel license out there as well.

There he is! Your NDA must be over by now. Any idea how long the Paizo non-compete is?

 

[Ranger REG]

I think everybody is forgetting the electronic entertainment licenses, such as for CRPGs. It will be interesting to see whether these are renewed.

That's up to Hasbro, not WotC. Though there are fans that want the electronic license to be pulled from Atari/Vivendi/Infogrames.

 

[Ranger REG]

No it isn't. I played in a Rokugan d20 game for over six months every Friday (and often Saturday, we were having that much fun) and we NEVER referenced OA. In fact I was the only one who owned OA, and like I have said, I wasn't the DM.

Which is why I still believe that it was a bad business decision to showcase Rokugan in the current Oriental Adventures book.

Rokugan can never fit in OA/D&D rules, it could in d20 ("out-of-the-sandbox" approach) and if AEG alone designed it (the same folks who designed and published Spycraft d20).

If the OA books wasn't required to play Rokugan, then it is a useless book for the Rokugan/L5R fanbase.

 

[Ranger REG]

who did the Scourge of the World .. video/computer Game?

Rhino, who owns Rhino Records (folks who compiled songs by genre or years, like doo-wop and 80's rocks).

It's not exactly a videogame by way of playing on computer or console and not on DVD players. It's an interactive DVD game.

Personally, we could use more of these "Choose-Your-Own" Adventures (though with better computer graphics or stick with computer-assisted cell animation, like the old Dragon's Lair format).

 

[Ranger REG]

I still think 3rd edition Oriental Adventures would have been much better served by sticking with Kara-Tur instead of trying to mimic Rokugan.

QFT.