WotC cancel publication of Dragonlance: Dragons of an Hourglass Mage

[Banshee16]

You do if it will end up costing you more money than you expect to recover. They have the sales information on the first two books in the trilogy. They can make a very good estimate as to sales of the third book.

Understood....but that's part of what I was getting at. There's obviously something going on that us, the fans aren't privy to.....whether it's sales lagging, or them being on the outs with Weis and Hickman, or whatever.

However....this, combined with things like not renewing the Dragonlance license for the RPG etc. is kind of suspicious. One really has to wonder what they're planning.

Banshee

 

[qstor]

who even said that Weis and Hickman were late? Maybe WOTC wanted to discontinue Dragonlance stuff? After all they got the license back?

Mike

 

[Khuxan]

who even said that Weis and Hickman were late? Maybe WOTC wanted to discontinue Dragonlance stuff? After all they got the license back?

Mike

First post: "Despite our efforts, a manuscript was not forthcoming."

 

[Ranger REG]

After all they got the license back?

By "getting it back" means WotC (the IP owner) chose not to renew the license (one that has an expiration date) for Sovereign Press/MWP to continue long-term support (at least 2 years) of the line, then yes.

 

[Dragonhelm]

who even said that Weis and Hickman were late?

Tracy himself said they were late. However, this is not uncommon. Amber and Blood was turned in late, and it just came out.

 

[Staffan]

I could certainly understand that kind of reason behind why they wouldn't want to look at a manuscript they weren't committed to using. Hell, I remember that JMS didn't want anyone to even post any plot *ideas* on the Compuserve forums while B5 was on, so that he couldn't be said to be "using someone else's work" in the future!

And someone did anyway, and it lead to one of the best standalone episodes being delayed by about a year until the guy who posted the idea contacted JMS and said "Man, I'm so sorry. I'll sign whatever you need to make this go away."

The episode in question was Passing Through Gethsemane, where a serial killer who's been mindwiped and is now a monk is stalked by his victims' relatives and made to see his past.