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30 Years of D&D Extravaganza

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the dice-still-not-going-to-roll-themselves dept.

Klytus writes "GamingReport.com is reporting on the events Wizards of the Coast has planned for this summer's 30th Anniversary of Dungeons & Dragons. Amongst the events is a 'World D&D Game Day.' There are also plans for a large coffee table book on the 30 years of D&D."

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  1. Re:wotc by MadMoses · · Score: 5, Informative

    In 1997, Wizards of the Coast, publishers of the Magic: The Gathering(R) trading card game, acquired TSR, and with it all the rights to D&D. They released the totally revamped 3rd Edition at GenCon 2000, which was a wild success. V3.5 was the most recent update.

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  2. Re:wotc by MadMoses · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yup, TSR went bankrupt.
    Here's an old salon.com article which, interestingly, comes to the conclusion that TSR failed because it behaved like the Microsoft of RPG publishers: closed source and a lot of law suites. WotC published the rules for the new D&D under the so-called OGL (open gaming license), which has similarities to open source. Now everybody can write and even sell games using the D&D rules set. You just can't call it D&D.

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