bclarkie wrote:Well, the plot thickens even further on this story. WotC yanked the Dragonlance License effective end of year 2007:http://boards1.wizards.com/leaving.php? ... 10040.aspx
Blackmoor wrote:I hear they are planning to release a Dragonlance animated movie. Keifer Sutherland and Lucy Lawless staring as voices of Raistlen and Goldmoon respectively. I imagine it means that WOTC would then release there own Dragonlance stuff to capitilize on this event!Here is a link anywayhttp://www.dragonlance-movie.com/
bclarkie wrote:I posted this over on DF, but here is something more to think about.Well, just throwing another log into the fire, but I have been thinking that perhaps the first shot fired in this situation may not have in fact been the termination of Paizo's license. I am thinking that perhaps, the first shot was actually fired off 5 months ago when Peter Adkinson decided to not continue on with GenCon SoCal. I know that in his public statement declaring its end, he indicated that it just wasn't drawing enough, however there may have been more to it than that. I mean, if there was anyone outside of WotC/Hasbro's board of directors who knew something big was on the horizon, something that could throw huge amount of doubt into the future of the brand, it would be Peter Adkinson. So I am wondering, if at least in part his decision to ixnay GenCon SoCal had more to with something more than just a reduction in attendance.I also think that it will very interesting to see if the pdf download sites(RPGnow & DrivethruRPG) also fall in the coming months here leading up to GenCon 2007. If they do, expect all hell to break loose.
bclarkie wrote:I am thinking that perhaps, the first shot was actually fired off 5 months ago when Peter Adkinson decided to not continue on with GenCon SoCal.
ATOM wrote:And it sure beats a discussion of the sugar/sweetner content of Coke.Artifical sweetners gave lab animals brain tumors....think on that Diet Coke fans!
bclarkie wrote:2) Wizards is getting all of its ducks in a row, because they are planning on selling(or at least trying to sell) the Dungeons & Dragons brand.
ExTSR wrote:I highly doubt it. Peter doesn't 'license' GenCon; Peter (or rather GenCon LLC) OWNS GenCon, lock stock & barrel.SoCal was bleeding cash, profusely.
Xaxaxe wrote:I also think some sort of big news is coming in 2007 (either this week at GAMA or this summer at GenCon), and I'm not necessarily disagreeing with this hypothesis, but I have to ask ... who the hell is left that could buy the D&D brand?Gaming in the U.S. is practically all under one roof now: Hasborg has absorbed it all. The d20 publishers that are hanging on (Alderac, et. al.) don't seem big enough to be able to pull it off ... the second-biggest manufacturer of CCGs is an old baseball-card company (Upper Deck) ... the oldest RPG-maker that hasn't already been assimilated is either Flying Buffalo or Steve Jackson Games. I'm just not seeing who the logical purchaser would be.Unless ... unless it's not a gaming company at all. Or unless it's not an American-based company. Or both. Anyway, I'm mostly just thinking aloud here; my guesses are as equally in the dark as anyone else's. I am pretty sure, though, that something big will be happening in gaming-land in 2007.