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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shasarak" data-source="post: 7688174" data-attributes="member: 94143">How can WotC get bitten by licensing that they did not even do?  It is not as if it was a big surprise to them that they could not make movies.  <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca-Cola#Origins_of_bottling" target="_blank">It is not even as if that was the worst licensing agreement of all time.</a>Well this is just patently false - WotC never decided to bring Dungeon and Dragon magazine in house because of falling subscription rates.  It was because they felt they could make more money by bundling the baby killing and whatever in an on-line subscription then they could by licensing out their baby killing and expecting people to do their own whatevering.So who do we blame for WitC legal not being able to write up a licensing agreement?It is not as if DnD has had any decent games since Baldurs Gate and ToEE anyway so no great loss there.I suspect that TSR did not have anything to do with the cartoon other then vague managerial oversight, most likely because they were focused on important projects like buying Needle Work companies or getting their second Gold-Plated Jacuzzi installed.My first recommendation would be not to hire The Three Stooges or Uncle Joe or who ever was doing legal for Lehman Brothers.  That would be a good start.</blockquote>